Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Alfred Button - Papers
Primary Maker
Date
1847-1856
1892-1899
1908-[1911]
Physical Description
Level of Current Record
Parent
Member Object
Related Object Notes
The Auckland War Memorial Museum Human History collections also hold the Crimean and Baltic Service medals of Alfred Button.
MS-2002-14, vol. 7 (1960-1966), p. 99.
Subject Notes
Alfred Button was born at Maidstone, Kent, on 18 December 1830. He joined the Royal Navy in 1847 and served through the Crimean War, gaining the Baltic, Crimean, and Turkish Medals and also the Sebastopol clasp. Button left England in 1875 with his wife, three daughters and two sons, aboard the 'Alumbagh' for New Zealand and landed at Auckland, where he was engaged for some years in dairy farming at Mt. Albert and Mangere. He sold out and went to Lyttelton, Christchurch, where he was appointed signalman at the Sumner Road Signal Station for the Lyttelton Harbour Board, a post he held until retiring around 1906. Button died in 1911, at Lyttelton, Christchurch, aged 82 years.
Credit Line
Presented by Mrs A.R. [Amelia Rebecca] Pascoe (daughter of Alfred Button) on 14 August 1961.
Last Update
07 Jul 2023
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