Waitaki Museum Blog
Featuring thoughts and ideas from the Waitaki Museum.
Of all the items in the North Otago Museum and the Waitaki District Archive connected with the First World War, I find this one the most moving.
This cloth is a souvenir of Egypt from World War One. A soldier sent it back to New Zealand as a Christmas present 99 years ago.
Donald Forrester Brown VC was a keen rugby player and his club, Excelsior, presented him with a cap on
William Duncan Neill received a letter in 1917. At that time he was serving as a Sergeant in the New Zealand Army.
Edward John Weller was working in Oamaru as a coach builder in 1914. He was quick to enlist, only 8 days after war was declared. He was 20 years old.
Lieutenant-Colonel J. Hargest unveiled Oamaru's World War I memorial on Anzac Day in 1926.
