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Richard Fairfax Tukino Grace sketchbook

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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.

Whakahounga o Mua: 23 Apr 2026

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4170 (Presto content ID)

PD-2017-8 (Reference Number)

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Richard Fairfax Tukino Grace sketchbook — Rights applied at item level

Rūma Whakaatu: —
Momo Taonga: artwork
Ingoa/Taitara: Richard Fairfax Tukino Grace sketchbook
Ingoa Kē: —
Kaiwaihanga Matua: Dr Richard Grace (Artist)
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Rā: 1915-1916
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Whakaahuatanga ā-Kiko: 130 mm. x 183 mm. x 15 mm (closed)
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Taumata o te Mauhanga o Nāianei: Parent
Ahanoa Mema: 37 ngā tūemi kei tēnei kohinga. Tirohia ngā tūemi katoa.
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Huinga Kaupapa: World War, 1914-1918
Taumata whakarōpū: Sketchbook/Painting T&E/04 Tools & Equipment for Materials/Chenhall Nomenclature
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Kuputuhi e Wātea Tūmatanui ana: Written on front cover "R.T. Grace 16th Royal Scots B.E.F."
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Tuhipoka Hāngai: https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/87806
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.
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Manatārua: Collection contains multiple items - rights applied at item level
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Whakahounga o Mua: 23 Apr 2026

Richard Fairfax Tukino Grace sketchbook