item details
NameMilitary Insignia - 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment
ProductionUnknown; manufacturer(s); 1914-1918; New Zealand
Classificationbadges, insignias
Materialsbrass
Materials Summarymetal button with backing
Techniquesmetalworking
DimensionsOverall: 12mm (depth), 38mm (diameter)
Registration NumberGH016802
Credit lineGift of Marianne Abraham, 2010
Overview
Returned effects
This military insignia of the infantry battalion 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment is from the uniform of Captain Thomas Wyville Leonard Rutherfurd (Service Number 6/718), who was known to family and friends as Wyville.
The badge was worn on the collar. The design comprises two fern fronds encircling the Roman numerals XIII, with 'NZI' at bottom.
The insignia was amongst a group of personal effects returned following Wyville's death from pneumonia in Tehran, October 1918. The items were given to his fiancée, Dorothy Broad, for whom they held great significance as personalised memorials for private consolation.