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Belt, Sam Browne   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Belt, Sam Browne
Object type Classification: NM3.7442
Description
English: Sam Browne belt with snake buckle, Anglo Boer War. Used by 4037 Sgt Neil G McLeod, 7th New Zealand Mounted Rifles. leather belt with snake buckle; two D-rings along upper edge for attaching shoulder strap; shoulder strap with brass buckles; two D-rings on lower edge, one with brass sword hanging hook attached, the other with leather strap attached for securing sword hilt; the D-rings are sewn onto separate square leather flaps with narrow leather loops for threading onto belt; belt secures with a snake shaped buckle with three leather running loops for securing free end of belt at one end; and a ring for the snake hook at the other; behind the ring the belt has a wide leather tongue which curves to a point.
Date Anglo-Boer War; Circa 1900
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length: 800mm
width: 930mm

notes: length: 800mm width: 930mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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1976.41
Place of creation Republic of South Africa; South Africa
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1976.41, U0203.4
Notes Sam Browne belt with snake buckle, Anglo Boer War. Used by 4037 Sgt Neil G McLeod, 7th New Zealand Mounted Rifles. After leaving secondary school Neil Gloster McLeod worked as an electrician-electrical engineer with the Auckland Tramway Company. He was only eighteen when he enlisted as a sergeant with No 21 Company, 7th Contingent New Zealand Mounted Rifles (listing his occupation as perambulator maker) and embarked aboard the Gulf of Taranto which left for South Africa from Wellington on 6 April 1901. Neil McLeod was subsequently promoted as Lieutenant serving with the 9th Contingent and also served as a Staff Sergeant with the Cape Police before returning to New Zealand where he resumed his electrical and engineering career. Sam Browne belts are combination pistol or sword belt with a shoulder strap and D-rings and were intended to take some of the weight of the sword. They were named after General Sir Sam Browne (1849-1898) of the British Army in India. The were first used in India, where Browne was stationed, circa 1860.
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