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card, memorial

human history
  • Other Name

    Passchendaele Memorial card : 25/1840 Rifleman Frank Silk Whitaker, NZRB, WW1

  • Description

    memorial card: photograph of NZEF Passchendaele memorial at Tyne Cot Cemetery : card in memory of 25/1840 Rifleman Frank Silk Whitaker, NZ Rifle Brigade featuring photo of Memorial erected at Tyne Cot Cemetery. Forwarded to family by the NZ Minister of Internal Affairs

    printed card with typed personal details on left hand side, photograph on rhs of the NZ memorial: stone panel with fern frond and 'NEW ZEALAND' at top above message: " HERE ARE RECORDSD THE NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN OF NEW ZEALAND WHO FELL IN THE BATTLE OF BROODSEINDE AND THE FIRST BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE. OCTOBER 1917, AND WHOSE GRAVES ARE KNOWN ONLY TO GOD"

  • Place
    [United Kingdom]
  • Associated Place

    Passchendaele/Ypres/Belgium

  • Other Id

    1995x2.403 (temporary accession number)

  • Department

    History

    War History

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  • Passchendaele Memorial card : 25/1840 Rifleman Frank Silk Whitaker, NZRB, WW1 [1995x2.403.1]

Artefact

  • Credit Line
    Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 1995x2.403
  • Primary Maker

     unknown

  • Place
    [United Kingdom]
  • Date
    Circa 1919
  • Associated Notes

    memorial card: photograph of NZEF Passchendaele memorial at Tyne Cot Cemetery : card in memory of 25/1840 Rifleman Frank Silk Whitaker, NZ Rifle Brigade featuring photo of Memorial erected at Tyne Cot Cemetery. Forwarded to family by the NZ Minister of Internal Affairs

    description: printed card with typed personal details on left hand side; photograph on rhs of the NZ memorial: stone panel with fern frond and 'NEW ZEALAND' at top above message: " HERE ARE RECORDSD THE NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN OF NEW ZEALAND WHO FELL IN THE BATTLE OF BROODSEINDE AND THE FIRST BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE. OCTOBER 1917, AND WHOSE GRAVES ARE KNOWN ONLY TO GOD"

    Rifleman Frank Whitaker 25/1840 worked as a builder's labourer in Auckland. A married man with one child and with his wife pregnant, he left New Zealand on 1 April 1916 with the 11th Reinforcements. he served with the Third Battalion, Third New Zealand (Rifles) Brigade in France and was killed before Passchendaele on 12 October 1917

  • Associated Event
    WW1; 1914-1918
    Battle of Broodseinde; Oct 1917
  • Associated Person

     Rifleman Frank Silk Whitaker

     Hon Minister of Internal Affairs

     Tyne Cot Cemetery

  • Associated Place

    Passchendaele/Ypres/Belgium

  • Associated Date
    12 Oct 1917
  • Period

    World War 1, 1914-18/Wars

  • Measurement Description
    173mm x 217mm (h x w)
  • Subject Category

    casualties/wars

    memorials/wars

  • Classification

    card, memorial

    documentary artifact

    card, memorial

    Funerary Objects

    Ceremonial Artifacts

    08 Communication Artifacts

  • Last Update
    15 May 2023
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