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Brooch, mourning   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Brooch, mourning
Object type Mourning/wars; casualties/wars
Classification: NM3.1951
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English: Mourning brooch, circa 1902 Commemorates death of 4622 Private Harry Finch, 7th Contingent, New Zealand Mounted Rifles, Anglo Boer War circular gold brooch; hinged clasp with twisted edge detailing; at centre a mounted photograph of Harry Finch wearing crossed bandoliers
Date 24 Feb 1902; Anglo-Boer War; Circa 1902; 13 Aug 2014; 28 Nov 2014
Dimensions diameter: 30mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
2014.87.2
Place of creation Langverwacht; not researched
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2014.87.2
Notes Mourning brooch, circa 1902 Commemorates death of 4622 Private Harry Finch, 7NZMR, Anglo Boer War. Harry Finch of Mt. Albert, Auckland joined the 7th Contingent New Zealand Mounted Rifles from Taranaki. He served with the 26th Company, and was one of 23 New Zealanders killed in action at Langverwacht on 24th February 1902. He is buried at Langverwacht Farm, near Vrede. "At Langverwacht Hill, near the Orange River, a Boer force broke through a British cordon at a point on the line held by New Zealand’s Seventh Contingent. The New Zealand line consisted of small posts of five or six men in shallow trenches (sangars). A small group of Boers drove a herd of cattle against the wire entanglements connecting the British blockhouses and used this distraction to overwhelm one of the New Zealand posts. They then advanced up the hill, destroying a number of other New Zealand-held posts. After ferocious close-quarter fighting, the Boers opened a gap through which most of their force escaped. The New Zealand casualties were high- of about 90 men in the front line, 23 were killed and more than 40 wounded." Quoted from- http-www.nzhistory.net.nz-end-of-the-battle-of-langverwacht-hill
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