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Badge, regimental   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Badge, regimental
Object type Home front/wars
Classification: NM3.13091
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English: Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) badge, WW2 Belonged to 8211229 Sgt Nada Florence Priest, New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) material- brass (gilded) and red enamel form- tui inside garter with motto- PRO PATRIA; fern frond frame with crown above; base scroll with W.A.A.C., and initials NZ above
Date Circa 1942; 27 Jul 2005; 08 Jul 2005; World War 2-wars; 1942-1945
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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2005.58.6
Place of creation New Zealand; Papakura; Auckland; Devonport; North Shore City
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 2005.58.6
Notes Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) badge, WW2 Belonged to 8211229 Sgt Nada Florence Priest, New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC). Nada Florence Priest, born Waihou 1-6-1922, brought up on a farm, attended Te Aroha College, worked briefly with timber merchant in Te Aroha. She joined the NZ WAAC on 6-6-1942, when it was still operating as the WWSA. She underwent her initial training at Papakura and Wellington. She was subsequerntly based at Devonport with the 67th Amnti-Air4craft Search Battery (rank, Bombadier) and at Mt Victoria (rank, Gunner). Post-war she joined the Army Clerical Division at Hopuhopu Camp, Ngaruawahia.Here she met Laurence Verdun Stubbing in Ngaruawahia, and the couple married in 1946. Her final rank was Sergeant.
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