Wikimedia Commons

File:Medal; service (AM 2014.21.1.6-9).jpg

Original file ‎(5,472 × 3,648 pixels, file size: 9.74 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary edit

Medal; service   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Medal; service
Object type Classification: 280
Description
English: New Zealand 1945-1995 Medal (New Zealand Army 50 Years) Awarded to 432736 Maj. Kenneth Russell Porter Mounted with five other medals on medal bar with cardboard backing for pocket insert inscribed on edge- 432736 MAJOR K.R. PORTER
Date 24 Mar 2014; Post 1945; 01 Apr 2014; 1945-1995; World War 2-wars
Dimensions diameter: 36mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
2014.21.1.6
Place of creation New Zealand; not researched
Exhibition history Display: 10A
Credit line

Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2014.21.1.6

Gift of Ron Porter
Notes New Zealand 1945-1995 Medal (New Zealand Army 150 Years) Awarded to 432738 Lieut. Kenneth Russell Porter, NZ Field Regt, 10th Reinforcements, 2NZEF, WW2 and post-WW2 Territorials. Ken Porter, aged 19, joined up after war broke out. He was already a keen sportsman, excelling on the rugby field and at swimming. At age 21, he went overseas to join the NZ Division in the Middle East. He had been commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in New Zealand but resigned his commission to go overseas. He landed in Italy in late 1943 and saw action in most of the Italian campaigns including several months in the front line at Cassino. He was recommissioned about this time. In September that year, Ken was wounded near Rimini in Northern Italy and was sent by hospital ship to the huge base hospital at Bari in the south. While convalescing, he was posted to HQ at Senigallia in the north and it was there that he met his future Italian wife, Laura.While in Sienna awaiting transport home, Ken proposed to Laura. She followed him out to New Zealand arriving mid-1946, and they married in June. The couple had two children, Sylvia was born in 1947 and Ronald in 1951. Ken Porter served with the Territorials post-war (Auckland and Wellington) rising to the rank of Major before reaching compulsory retirement age at 45. In 1977 Ken and his family moved to Australia with his role as Victoria State Manager with the ANZ from which he reitred in 1981 on his 60th birthday. Ken was an active participant in the Kiwi section of the Australian RSL.
Source/Photographer

API data
Catalogue record

Photo
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 This image has been released as "CCBY" by Auckland Museum. For details refer to the Commons project page.
Other versions

Licensing edit

w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Attribution: Auckland Museum
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current17:00, 15 January 2018Thumbnail for version as of 17:00, 15 January 20185,472 × 3,648 (9.74 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)Auckland Museum Page 649.56 Object #64955 2014.21.1.6 Image 9/14 http://api.aucklandmuseum.com/id/media/v/490549

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Medal;_service_(AM_2014.21.1.6-9).jpg&oldid=745063979"