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Richard Fairfax Tukino Grace sketchbook

documentary heritage
  • Description

    The sketchbook contains sketches in pencil (both black and purple). It was signed by M. Crump [Mary] and gifted to Dick on 22/2/1915 before his embarkation. He carried it with him through his service. A passage on the last page simply states, returned 31.3.1917. The sketches show men walking along trenches lined with duckboards on the Somme, dugouts, periscopes and soldiers of various uniforms and ghost villages.

  • Other Id

    4170 (Presto content ID)

    PD-2017-8 (Reference Number)

    ACQ-2017-8 (Acquisition number)

  • Department

Images and documents

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Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Richard Fairfax Tukino Grace sketchbook
  • Primary Maker

     Dr Richard Grace (Artist)

  • Date
    1915-1916
  • Physical Description

    130 mm. x 183 mm. x 15 mm (closed)

  • Level of Current Record
    Parent
  • Member Object

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  • Subject Category
  • Public Access Text

    Written on front cover "R.T. Grace 16th Royal Scots B.E.F."

  • Associated Notes
  • Subject Notes
    Richard Grace was born in 1895, the son of Lawrence Marshall and Te Kahui Grace. His paternal Grandfather was the Reverend Thomas Samuel Grace and maternal grandfather was Horonuku Te Heuheu Tukino 1V, Paramount Chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa.
    In 1915 Grace left New Zealand to take up a medical degree in Edinburgh but soon after abandoned his studies and joined the 16th Royal Scots Battalion (service no. WWI 25055). This collection of letters covers a portion of Richard’s study and much later in life in the 1960s, but the vast majority is written while he was on active service during WWI.
  • Copyright
    Collection contains multiple items - rights applied at item level
  • Last Update
    31 Jan 2023

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