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flag, ensign

human history
  • Other Name

    NZ Ensign : 1914-1918 Roll of Honour. Agriculture, Industries and Commerce

    flag, signature

  • Description

    New Zealand Ensign with 1914-1918 Roll of Honour for Department of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce

    Souvenir New Zealand Ensign with names handstitched in thick cotton twine; some marked with + as "Gone West"

    flag without pole sleeve etc; including Red Cross Arm Band "War Camp Community Service" Label with it; but German written on it, dated 15.8.1918.

  • Place
    New Zealand
  • Associated Place

    Wellington/New Zealand

  • Accession Date
    1968
  • Other Id

    F017 (flag)

  • Department

    History

    War History

flag, ensign, F017

Images and documents

Images

  • flag, ensign, F017
  • flag, ensign, F017
  • flag, ensign, F017
  • flag, ensign, F017
  • flag, ensign, F017
  • flag, ensign, F017
  • flag, ensign, F017
  • flag, ensign, F017
  • flag, ensign, F017
  • flag, ensign, F017
  • flag, ensign, F017
  • flag, ensign, F017

Artefact

  • Credit Line
    Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, F017
  • Primary Maker

     unknown (Embroiderer)

  • Place
    New Zealand
  • Date
    [1919]
  • Associated Notes

    The names include the following: J Kirkland (2 possible identifications), TC Webb, MF Mullins, PT Emerson, AJ Robinson, J Hunter, WE Flower, GN Waugh, JH Primmer, JW Holm, EW CAddigan, SH Huntington, AB Mansfield, JT Stott.

    Souvenir New Zealand Ensign with 1914-1918 Roll of Honour for Department of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce, ie staff of who served during WW1, for example, vets employed by the government.

    description: embroidered names are handstitched in thick cotton twine; some marked with + as "Gone West"; also includes a Red Cross Arm Band "War Camp Community Service"

    All of the names listed seem likely to have been employees of the Department of Agriculture, Industries & Commerce, and possibly based in Wellington? Of those names checked the following pre-enlistment occupations have been recorded: veterinarian, orchard instructor, civil servant, farmer.

  • Associated Event
    WW1; 1914-1918
  • Associated Person

     Department of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce (Embroiderer)

  • Associated Place

    Wellington/New Zealand

  • Associated Date
    1914-1918
  • Period

    World War 1, 1914-18/Wars

  • Media

    cloth

    cotton (textile)

  • Measurement Description
    4' 7" x 9' 3"
    1380mm x 2660mm
  • Measurement Reading

    1380mm

    2660mm

  • Subject Category

    commemoration/wars

    roll of honour/wars

  • Classification

    flag, commemorative

    flag

    Flag

    Organisational Objects

    Ceremonial Artifacts

    08 Communication Artifacts

  • Last Update
    15 May 2023
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