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Book, prize   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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George G Harrap & Co.; Rowland Wheelwright
Title
Book, prize
Object type School
Classification: NM3.13040
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English: School prize book, Waitaki Boys High School Macmillan-Brown prize 1936 awarded to Bruce Dent 285658 2nd Lieutenant Bruce Ingham Dent MC, Fiji Defence Force, New Zealand Infantry, 3NZEF
Date 10 Jul 2014; 10 Sep 2014; George V (1910 - 1936)-House of Windsor-English reign; 1936
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length: 111mm
width: 63mm
width: 154mm
width: 31mm
length: 242mm
length: 223mm
depth: 46mm

notes: .1 book 500pp
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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2014.68.18
Place of creation New Zealand; Oamaru
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Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2014.68.18

Gift of Beverley Ingham Wilding
Notes school prize book, Waitaki Boys High School Macmillan-Brown prize 1936 awarded to Bruce Dent 2nd Lieutenant Bruce Ingham Dent MC, Fiji Defence Force, New Zealand Infantry, Third Division, WW2 2nd Lieutenant Dent MC joined the army in November 1941 and left for Fiji in December 1942 where he helped train the 4th Battalion of the Fiji Infantry Regiment. Nine months later he received his commission and joined the 1st Battalion Fijian Infantry Regiment which was serving in the Solomon Islands. On December 21, 1943 the Battalion was moved to Bougainville where it was engaged in jungle warfare. Dent was killed in action on 25 March 1944, and awarded the Military Cross posthumously for “outstanding leadership during the Ibu campaign,” Bougainville. He is buried in New Caledonia at the Bourail New Zealand Cemetery. The Military Cross (MC) is awarded to junior officers and senior non-commissioned officers of the Army for courage and devotion to duty on active service. Over 500 MCs were awarded to New Zealanders during the First World War and over 250 in the Second World War.
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