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| Artist |
William McMillan |
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| Title |
Medal, campaign |
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| Object type | Classification: 278 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: British War Medal 1914-20, WW1 Awarded to 25-1840 Rifleman Frank Silk Whitaker, New Zealand Rifle Brigade circular silver medal; plain, straight non-swivelling suspender; ribbon missing obverse- coinage head of King George V with the legend GEORGIUS V BRITT- OMN- REX ET IND- IMP- reverse- naked figure of St. George on horseback facing right. The horse is trampling on an eagle shield and cross bones symbolic of death; above the horse’s head is the sun, symbolic of victory. Around the edge are the dates, 1914 and 1918 ribbon- broad orange watered band down the centre, bordered with white, black and blue stripes named on edge- 25-1840 RFLM. F.S. WHITAKER. N.Z.E.F. |
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| Date | World War 1, 1914-18-wars; George V (1910 - 1936)-House of Windsor-English reign; 1971; (1919); 1914-1920 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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diameter: 36mm |
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1971.56 |
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| Place of creation | England | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history | Display: 2A | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, N1478 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | British War Medal 1914-20 Awarded to 25-1840 Rifleman Frank Silk Whitaker, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, WW1 Frank Silk Whitaker, married man of Auckland served on the Western Front and lost his life at Passchendaele. He left a ten year old son and a baby daughter he had never met. His memory is held in a small collection of embroidered postcards sent to his son. A letter to his widow described where Frank was initially buried. However, he is now listed among those with no known grave at the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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