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Hussif or housewife sewing kit which belonged to 61957 2/Lt Daniel Patrick Reardon, 40th Squadron NZ Field Artillery, NZEF, WW1

materials: khaki canvas stitched at edges, rolls into a tube & tied with leather, inside black and red felt patch, two domed canvas pockets, single needle in patch

Nama tāpiringa: 1997.15.5 Whakahounga o Mua: 9 Oct 2025

Ingoa Kōrero Noa

housewife

Ingoa Kē

Hussif (sewing kit), WW1 (descriptive name)

2/Lt Daniel Patrick Reardon, NZFA, WW1 (associated name)

housewife (alternative)

Wāhi

[New Zealand]

Wāhi Hāngai

Western Front/Europe

Accession Number

1997.15.5

Rā Tāpiringa

1997

Wāhanga

History

War History

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Hussif or housewife sewing kit which belonged to 2/Lt 61957 Daniel Patrick Reardon, NZ Field Artillery, NZEF, WW1

61957 2/Lt Daniel Patrick Reardon

Trained at Featherston Military Camp

Served WW1 and with Territorials pre-WW1 and post-WW1

pre-WW1: Sgt No 1 Battery, Auckland Brigade Field Artillery, 1911; commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant on 28/10/1912

WW1: 40th Squadron NZ Field Artillery; joined up on 12 March 1917, aged 29 years and embarked on 16.7.1918 (Troopship 107). Embarked for return to NZ on 12/9/1919

Post-war posted to NZFA ‘A’ Battery as Lieutenant

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