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Box, gift   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Adshead & Ramsay
Title
Box, gift
Object type Christmas/wars
Classification: NM3.12771
Description
English: Princess Mary Gift Box, given to 6-560 2nd Lieut. Jock Sutherland, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, WW1 brass tin; hinged lid; lid embossed; profile of Princess Mary within a wreath; decorative frieze round edge; marked CHRISTMAS 1914
Date World War 1, 1914-18-wars; 02 Oct 2006; 1915; 1914; 26 Sep 2006
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width: 130mm
length: 96mm
depth: 32mm

notes: .1 h x w x d: container: 85mm x 130mm x 30mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
2006.86.2
Place of creation England; Gallipoli
Notes Princess Mary Gift Box, given to 6-560 2nd Lieut. Jock Sutherland, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, 1NZEF, WW1 6-560 2nd Lieut. Jock Sutherland, Canterbury Infantry Battalion John Sutherland, also known as Jock, was born in Dunedin on November 26, 1886, to David and Margaret Sutherland (nee Mitchell) and was living at Waimate when he enlisted as a private with the Canterbury Infantry Battalion soon after the outbreak of war. He left New Zealand on 6 October 1914 with the Main Body. By the end of the war Jock Sutherland had attained the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, and he married Helen Clifford, in Somerset on 1 January 1919, before his return to New Zealand. His son, Ross St Clair Sutherland served during WW2. The Princess Mary Gift Box was issued to all British Empire troops serving overseas in December 1914; also issued later to all troops who served on Gallipoli John Sutherland, also known as Jock, was born in Dunedin on November 26, 1886, to David and Margaret Sutherland (nee Mitchell) and was living at Waimate when he enlisted as a private with the Canterbury Infantry Battalion soon after the outbreak of war. He left New Zealand on 6 October 1914 with the Main Body. By the end of the war Jock Sutherland had attained the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, and he married Helen Clifford, before his return to New Zealand. His son, Ross St Clair Sutherland served during WW2.
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