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badge, regimental

On display
human history
  • Other Name

    New Zealand Pioneer Battalion, Rarotongan Company hat badge, WW1 (descriptive name)

  • Description

    New Zealand Pioneer Battalion, Rarotongan Company hat badge, WW1

    voided brass badge

    obverse: fern frond frame with tattooed male portrait above; crossed axe and pickaxe at centre; base scroll with: COOK . IS. COY.

  • Place
    [New Zealand]
  • Associated Place

    Rarotonga/Cook Islands

    Niue

    Western Front/Europe

  • Other Id

    1995x2.74.24 (temporary accession number)

    1995x2.74 (temporary accession number)

    1995x2.074 (temporary accession number)

  • Department

    History

    War History

  • Display Room

    Scars on the Heart 1

badge, regimental, 1995x2.74.24, 1995x2.74, 1995x2.074

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  • badge, regimental, 1995x2.74.24, 1995x2.74, 1995x2.074
  • badge, regimental, 1995x2.74.24, 1995x2.74, 1995x2.074
  • badge, regimental, 1995x2.74.24, 1995x2.74, 1995x2.074
  • badge, Cook Island contingent

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