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Christmas Bowl

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This bowl is a link back to New Zealand’s first Christmas following the battle of Gallipoli.
Christmas Wallet

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This wallet was a Christmas gift from the YMCA to New Zealand soldier Donald Cottle who was fighting as an infantryman on the Western Front.
The Fox

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Contributed by Grant Hays, Custodian Sergeant Errol Sampson Allison or Bill as he liked to be known, began World War II serving with the 20th Battalion 2NZEF (New Zealand Expeditionary Force) in both Greece and Crete before being captured by the Germans in North Africa, at Belhamed in December 1941. He ended up in Stalag…
Boer War Slouch Hat

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This type of wide brimmed felt hat was commonly worn by British Empire Forces during the Second Boer War.
Pattern Wheeled Carrier

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This artefact is a New Zealand Pattern Wheeled Carrier which were used in World War II by the Home Guard and later in the Korean War.
Iraqi Most Wanted Playing Cards

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During the 2003 invasion of Iraq playing cards like these were used as a novel way to hunt for people wanted by the US forces.
Patriotic Plate

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This plate was produced by the English firm Jackson and Gosling, who brought out a variety of patriotic crockery, including one at the end of the war which boasted ‘Might in the right cause has prevailed’.
World War II Coastwatchers Remembered

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Contributed by Grant Hays, Custodian New Zealand Coastwatchers who served in the Pacific during World War II were commemorated this October with the laying of a wreath at the National War Memorial in Wellington. The 15th October marks a day to remember when in 1942 on Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, 17 New Zealand…
Gas Hood

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World War I introduced industrialised killing to the battlefield with perhaps the greatest horror being poison gas.

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