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Parachute silk, embroidered   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Parachute silk, embroidered
Object type Prisoner of war/wars
Classification: 75988
Description
English: Small piece of parachute silk embroidered with signatures of British ex-POWs who recuperated in New Zealand at the end of WW2
Date 03 Oct 2006; 1939-1945; World War 2-Wars; 1945; 30 Oct 2006; Oct 1945-Nov 1945
Medium Signed
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length: 1080mm

width: 860mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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2006.101.2
Place of creation Singapore; Southeast Asia; Asia; Waikato; Hamilton; Japan; New Zealand; Hong Kong
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2006.101.2
Notes signed piece of parachute silk received by donor from British ex POWs whom she nursed at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, in October-November 1945. Approximately 200 British servicemen came to New Zealand on 3 October 1945 aboard the hospital ship Tjitjalengka. They had been in Japanese POW camps (Singapore and Hong Kong) and recuperated in New Zealand before their return to the UK. After seven weeks in New Zealand they left aboard HMS Reaper for Sydney. (see newsclipping in accession file)
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