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Stick, measuring   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Stick, measuring
Object type Veterinary services/wars; horses/animals/wars; 1913 Waterfront Strike/strikes
Classification: NM3.9822
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English: Vet's measuring stick that belonged to Major Thomas Arnold Blake form- extendable walking stick; cane with horn handle; silver and brass fittings; measuring rod inside cane marked in metric and in 'hands', with fold-out level design- markings on silver fitting- B - JW -M - image of lion - crest; marks along measuring rod- HS10 to HS17
Date World War 1, 1914-18-wars; Circa 1905-Circa 1910; 21 May 2007; 23 Jul 2007
Dimensions notes: l: 1790mm (open, max length) lxw: 930mm x 130mm (closed)
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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2007.57.2
Place of creation Europe
Notes Vet's horse measuring stick Belonged to Major Thomas Arnold Blake, NZ Veterinary Corps Thomas Arnold Blake (1882-1966) was a member of the Rangoon Vol. Rifles from 1906. By 1913 he was living in New Zealand and tended horses of the Special Constables camped in the Auckland Domain during the 1913 Waterfront Strike, probably as an employee of the Department of Agriculture. During WW1 he enlisted as a Captain in the New Zealand Veterinary Corps (Service no 13-637) embarking with the Main Body. He served as an official veterinarian in the 1NZEF in France and Egypt. On 29 August 1915, while in Egypt, he married Mabel Deane. Post-WW1 TA Blake served in the Territorial Army as Major.
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