item details
NameNew Zealand Army button
ProductionUnknown; manufacturer(s); 1914-1918; New Zealand
Classificationbuttons
Materialsbrass
DimensionsOverall: 17mm (width), 17mm (height), 12mm (depth), 17mm (diameter)
Registration NumberGH016799
Credit lineGift of Marianne Abraham, 2010
Overview
Returned effects
This New Zealand Army uniform button is from the uniform of Captain Thomas Wyville Leonard Rutherfurd (Service Number 6/718), who was known to family and friends as Wyville. It features the text: 'New Zealand Forces' and a representation of the Southern Cross.
The button 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.