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Harry Hall Ltd
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Uniform, dress
Object type Classification: 78889
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English: Dress uniform Royal Army Service Corps, worn by Major E Colin S Little MBE, WW2 khaki woollen jacket, with belt, trousers and tie the jacket is single breasted with two breast pockets and two bellows pockets, with Royal Army Service Corps buttons and collar badges and Major's rank badge (crown) on shoulder epaulettes, one row of medal ribbons bars with- MBE, 1939-1945 Star, Burma Star, Defence Medal 1939-45 with MID oak leaf clasp makers label at inside neck of jacket- HARRY HALL LTD - 181, OXFORD ST. W.1. - 149 CHEAPSIDE E.C.2. - LONDON. ENG woollen belt with brass buckle and popper button to secure tail end of belt the trousers are straight leg in khaki green wool with high back and belt loops at waist and six buttons for the attachment of braces, Harry Hall buttons and label at waist label- EST. 40 YEARS 12 GOLD MEDALS - HARRY HALL LTD 181, OXFORD ST. W.1 - CIVIL, SPORTING, HUNTING and LADIES' TAILORS Name Order No. khaki cotton tie with label cut off
Date 29 Aug 1999; 1939-1945; World War 2-wars; 12 Aug 1999
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width across shoulders: 460mm
length: 680mm
length of sleeve: 660mm
length: 1250mm
length: 950mm
width across waist: 400mm
width: 90mm
length: 1135mm

width: 480mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
1999.114.1
Place of creation Burma; Kerikeri; England; Dunkerque; India
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 1999.114.1
Notes Dress uniform of Major (later Lt. Col.) Edward Colin Selby Little, Royal Army Service Corps, WW2. He was also attached to the Royal Indian Army Service Corps,1941-1945 and became OC 47 General Transport Company, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, 14th Army in Burma. Dr Edward Colin Selby QSO MBE FNZIAS MSc DPhil. Born in China and educated in England Colin Little came to New Zealand circa 1934 to work for his grandfather Edward Selby Little, (who founded ICI in China and headed the Australian Trade Commission to China). Edward Selby Little had retired to Kerikeri where he had citrus orchards and became known as the "father of Kerikeri'. Colin, aged 21 when he came to New Zealand, had a degree in horticulture and for four years managed his grandfather's Kerikeri estate. Colin had returned to England on a trip and when war was declared joined up with the Royal Army Service Corps which, at the time, was the only unit accepting volunteer officer cadets (the only NZ force then in the UK was a machinegun battalion which had a full complement). He got a commission as 2nd Lieutenant and served in France, being present at the evacuation of Dunkirk, and subsequently went as a volunteer to India (late 1940). In India he gained the rank of Lt. Colonel and in 1941 transferred to the India Branch Transport and became OC 47 General Transport Company, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, 14th Army in Burma. During the Japanese advance he worked on the Burma road coordinating supplies and the movement of refugees, returning to England when the war ended in August 1945, and later coming back to New Zealand. Following his return to New Zealand Colin graduated in science from Auckland University; worked for eight years as a technical officer with Imperial Chemical Industries; graduated with a PhD from Oxford followed by three years working with the UN International Atomic Energy Agency creating laboratories in Burma and East Pakistan. Dr Little then worked for the British Government publicising UK research on aquatic weed control followed by a series of placements with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in various parts of the world, and a brief assignment for the World Bank on the utilisation of coconut timber in Indonesia. Dr Little retired back to New Zealand in the mid-1970s returning initially to the Bay of Islands where he established an environmental trust.
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