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kitbag

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  • Other Name

    service kitbag : 8th (Southland) Regiment : WW1 : Private Sutherland Sinclair McNeil (alternative)

  • Description

    service kitbag, WW1

    Belonged to Private Sutherland Sinclair McNeil, 8th (Southland) Regiment, NZEF

    tubular kitbag; stained; frayed eyelet holes around opening; cord for closure intact but origin unknown - may not be original; card tag with hand-written label attached by safety pin, blue biro

  • Place
    [New Zealand]
  • Accession Number
    2015.28.3
  • Accession Date
    03 Jun 2015
  • Department

    History

    War History

kitbag / 2015.28.3 / ©Auckland Museum CC BY

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  • kitbag / 2015.28.3 / ©Auckland Museum CC BY
  • kitbag / 2015.28.3 / ©Auckland Museum CC BY
  • kitbag / 2015.28.3 / ©Auckland Museum CC BY
  • kitbag / 2015.28.3 / ©Auckland Museum CC BY
  • kitbag / 2015.28.3 / ©Auckland Museum CC BY
  • kitbag / 2015.28.3 / ©Auckland Museum CC BY

Artefact

  • Credit Line
    Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2015.28.3
    Gift of Mary, William, Kenneth and Bruce Grant
  • Primary Maker

     1NZEF (Made for)

  • Place
    [New Zealand]
  • Date
    [1914-1918]
  • Associated Notes

    Service kitbag, that belonged to Private Sutherland Sinclair McNeil, 8th (Southland) Regiment, NZEF, WW1

    Well-used post-war by family for laundry, school camps etc.

    Privates Sutherland and Waihora McNeil were brothers and members of the McNeil family, one of the oldest settler families in Otago. Their grandfather James McNeil arrived from Scotland in 1849 on board the “Mooltan.”

    8/422 Private Sutherland Sinclair McNeil (known as “Sus”), born [30]/08/93, worked as a tram conductor before he signed up. Sus died on 14 May 1915, at the 17th General Hospital, Alexandria of a severe gunshot wound to the thigh sustained at Gallipoli on 9 May 1915.

    10/463 Private William Waihora McNeil (known as “Waihora” and nicknamed “Scotty”), born 17/08/95, was a seaman prior to the outbreak of war. He served on the New Zealand training ship “Amokura”, and later on the ferry steamer “Maori”. Waihora was killed in action on 8 August 1915, on Chunuk Bair:

  • Associated Event
    WW1; 1914-1918
  • Associated Person

     Pte Sutherland Sinclair McNeil

     8th (Southland Rifles) Regiment

     1NZEF

  • Period

    World War 1, 1914-18/Wars

  • Signature/marks

    "No / 8TH SOUTHLAND REGT" / "[S.MCNEIL]"

    "MC GRANT / PIHA PO / AUCKLAND"

    "A. DICK"

    "A.T. DICK"

  • Media

    canvas

    [nylon]

  • Measurement Reading

    880mm

    480mm

    240mm (from table to top of bag base)

  • Classification

    equipment

  • Media/Materials Notes

    cream coloured

  • Last Update
    15 May 2023
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