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Banner, identification   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
Banner, identification
Object type World War 2/wars
Classification: 78070
Description
English: Third Reich vehicle identification or recognition banner or flag, WW2 From collection of Stan O’Callaghan, “A” Troop, 29th Battery, 6 Field Artillery- El Alamein, 1942 elongated red cotton flag or banner, originally with brass grommets (eyelets) in each corner; white cloth disc with swastika, appliqued on one side only markings- Three blocks of autographed signatures applied in black ink to the white cloth areas surround the swastika; a fourth block of text includes the signatures of Montgomery, Weir and Freyberg, and is headed “29th Bty 6 N.Z. Field Regt.”, followed by a description of the Battle of El Alamein and the acquisition of the flag.
Date circa 1942
date QS:P571,+1942-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
; 1942; 30 Jun 2014; World War 2-wars; 26 May 2014
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length: 1800mm
width: 1000mm

notes: approx
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
2014.42.1
Place of creation Unknown; El Alamein
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Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2014.42.1

Gift of Peter Wilson
Notes Third Reich vehicle identification or recognition banner or flag, WW2 Third Reich vehicle identification or recognition banner or flag, WW2 From collection of Stan O’Callaghan, “A” Troop, 29th Battery, 6 Field Artillery- El Alamein, 1942 This German swastika banner was captured on 24th October 1942, the morning after the beginning of the Battle of El Alamein. It bears the signatures of the men of 29 Field Battery, 6 NZ Field Regiment and includes the signatures of significant New Zealand and Allied Forces leaders - General Bernard Montgomery, Commander of the 8th Army in the Western Desert, Brigadier Stephen Weir 2 NZ Division and General Bernard Freyberg G.O.C. 2NZEF. The banner was kept as a souvenir kept by the donor’s uncle, Stan Allen O’Callahan, “A” Troop, 29th Battery, 6 NZ Field Artillery. Our donor was given the flag in the mid-1950s by his uncle, Stanley O’Callaghan of Christchurch, when he was about 7 years old. He remembers his uncle telling him some tales of his WW2 experiences which included being a driver for Freyberg at about the time this flag was acquired. Vehicle identification banners were secured to the roofs and bonnets of German vehicles in the earlier stages of the Second World War to provide identification to friendly aircraft.
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