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Button, uniform   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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St John's Ambulance Brigade
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Button, uniform
Object type Medical services/wars
Classification: NM3.6508
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English: St John's Ambulance Brigade buttons (x4); belonged to 25577 Gunner EA (Ted) Frost, 7th Anti Tank Regiment, NZ Artillery, 2NZEF, WW2. Ted joined the St John's Ambulance Brigade Overseas Membership in 1937 white metal buttons with St John Ambulance Brigade Maltese star
Date 05 Sep 2007; Post 1937; 07 Aug 2007; 1939-1945; World War 2-wars
Dimensions notes: diameter: 15mm height: 9mm (including shank)
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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2007.78.30
Place of creation Unknown; Italy; North Africa; Greece
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 2007.78.30
Notes St John's Ambulance Brigade buttons (x4); belonged to 25577 Gunner EA (Ted) Frost, 7th Anti Tank Regiment, NZ Artillery, 2NZEF, WW2 Ted Frost grew up on a Waikato farm. He enlisted for service in 1940 joining the 7th NZ Anti-tank regiment. He served in Greece (was in one of the last groups to get off Greece), North Africa (wounded at Sidi Rezegh) and Italy. On his discharge from the army Ted bought a dairy farm at Te Hoe in the Waikato. He met and married his wife Honour Marshdale in 1946. The collection includes personal gear - including a knitted skull cap made by Ted or by one of his mates, sewing kits, souvenir cloths, and souvenir badges, together with a selection of photographs and papers documenting Ted's war service and rehabilitation.
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