item details
NameUniform sleeve (partial)
ProductionUnknown; 1914-1918; New Zealand
Classificationsleeves
Materialscloth
DimensionsOverall: 195mm (width), 245mm (height)
Registration NumberGH016805
Credit lineGift of Marianne Abraham, 2010
Overview
Returned effects
This cut-off jacket sleeve is from the uniform of Captain Thomas Wyville Leonard Rutherfurd (Service Number 6/718), who was known to family and friends as Wyville. It was amongst a group of personal effects returned following his death from pneumonia in Tehran, October 1918.
The items were given to Wyville’s fiancée, Dorothy Broad, for whom they held great significance as personalised memorials for private consolation.