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Bed cover; Red Cross   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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New Zealand Red Cross, Albany Sub-Centre
Title
Bed cover; Red Cross
Object type Fundraising/wars
Classification: NM3.896
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English: Signature cloth made by the Albany sub-group of the NZ Red Cross during WW2. rectangular cloth cover, applique red cross at centre inside circular band with letters N Z on either side of cross and "ALBANY - Sub-Centre" above and below; names of committee members and office-holders are embroidered around the central circle; remaining central panel is divided into embroidered squares with names embroidered in red thread in each square office-holders names- President- F.M. Hunt, Vice-President- F.A. Blackett, Treasurer- K.Small, Secretary- M Alexander
Date 22 Oct 2013; Circa 1939-Circa 1945; World War 2-wars; 04 Dec 2013
Medium Appliqué/needlework; hand embroidered/embroidery/needlework
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length: 2240mm
width: 1700mm

notes: length: 2240mm width: 1700mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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2013.45.1
Place of creation Albany; Helwan
Credit line Gift of Brian Pugh, Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2013.45.1
Notes Signature cloth made during WW2 by members of the Albany Sub-Centre of the NZ Red Cross Society. In addition to the names of Albany Red Cross committee members, the embroidered names are believed to include those of men from the Albany area serving during WW2. It was sent overseas to the NZ Base Hospital in Egypt (1 NZGH) where it was used as a bed cover. The bedcover was given to the donor approximately 40 years ago by Sister Ina Coralie Healey, New Zealand Army Nursing Service who was Charge Sister at 1 New Zealand General Hospital. She later wrote that it was a “bed cover made by the then Albany Red Cross members. … We used it overseas at the Base Hospital in Egypt – so a few Northern soldiers slept under it.” Signature cloths like this were often made as a fundraiser, with a small fee paid for each name embroidered onto the cloth.
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