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Parachute silk   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Parachute silk
Object type Prisoner of war/wars
Classification: 75988
Description
English: Large piece of parachute silk given to Doreen Gooder by British ex-POWs who she nursed while recuperating at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand at the end of WW2
Date 30 Oct 2006; 03 Oct 2006; 1939-1945; World War 2-wars; 1945
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length: 3520mm

width: 930mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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2006.101.1
Place of creation Hamilton; Hong Kong; Singapore
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2006.101.1
Notes piece of parachute silk received by donor from British ex POWs whom she nursed at Waikato Hospital in Oct-Nov 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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