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photograph, portrait

human history
  • Other Name

    university photograph of Bruce Dent (descriptive name)

    285658 2nd Lieutenant Bruce Ingham Dent MC, 1st Battalion Fiji Defence Force, New Zealand Infantry, WW2 (associated name)

  • Description

    portrait photograph of Bruce Dent taken whilst attending Canterbury University prior to war service.

    2nd Lt. Bruce Ingham Dent 285658 1st Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, New Zealand Third Division, Bougainville 1943-1944

  • Place
    New Zealand
  • Accession Number
    2014.68.9
  • Accession Date
    10 Sep 2014
  • Department

    History

    War History

portrait

Images and documents

Images

  • portrait
  • portrait
  • portrait

Artefact

  • Credit Line
    Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2014.68.9
    Gift of Beverley Ingham Wilding
  • Place
    New Zealand
  • Date
    Pre 1942
  • Associated Notes

    university photograph of Bruce Dent

    2nd Lieutenant Bruce Ingham Dent MC, Fiji Defence Force, New Zealand Infantry, Third Division, WW2)

    2nd Lieutenant Dent MC joined the army in November 1941 and left for Fiji in December 1942 where he helped train the 4th Battalion of the Fiji Infantry Regiment. Nine months later he received his commission and joined the 1st Battalion Fijian Infantry Regiment which was serving in the Solomon Islands. On December 21, 1943 the Battalion was moved to Bougainville where it was engaged in jungle warfare.

    Dent was killed in action on 25 March 1944, and awarded the Military Cross posthumously for “outstanding leadership during the Ibu campaign,” Bougainville. He is buried in New Caledonia at the Bourail New Zealand Cemetery.

  • Associated Person

     2nd Lieutenant Bruce Ingham Dent

     University of Canterbury

  • Period

    pre-WW2/Wars

  • Media

    photographic paper/paper (fiber product)

    cardboard/pasteboard/paper (fiber product)

  • Measurement Reading

    150mm (mount)

    101mm (mount)

    99mm (photograph)

    67mm (photograph)

  • Classification

    photograph

    documentary artifact

    Photograph

    Graphic Documents

    Documentary Artifacts

    08 Communication Artifacts

  • Last Update
    15 May 2023
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