SandyEm: Museum staff with Koen Verlaeckt, [wearing glasses & to the left] and David Jordens [to Koen's left]
SandyEm: Beautiful mementoes from WWI - painstaking work!
SandyEm: Part of the 'Mickle Album'. Compiled by Alice Maud(e) Rebecca Mickle, who was the wife of a local Birkenhead [Auckland] doctor. They married in London in the March quarter of 1889 and came out to New Zealand from the UK sometime after 1901.
SandyEm: Part of the 'Mickle Album' collated by one woman during the war
SandyEm: Ephemera relating to Belgium
SandyEm: Newspapers with the story - NZ backing Belgium citizens to the hilt with fundraising
SandyEm: Fabulous photograph from our collection
SandyEm: Julie reads while she waits for the dignitaries ... we take using gloves seriously :oD
SandyEm: Regimental badge carved from chalk at Flanders and Cigarette box - Royal Navy Brigade, Antwerp
SandyEm: Visit to Auckland War Memorial Museum by Koen Verlaeckt, Secretary General of the Flemish Dept of Foreign Affairs and David Jordens, First Secretary from the Belgian Embassy in Canberra
SandyEm: Trench art: Water bottle by Maori soldier serving in Belgium; 2 engraved shells from the Somme - Nth Staffordshire Unit. Along with a piece of railing, bombed, from the Ypres Cathedral.
SandyEm: WW1 connections
SandyEm: Collections together
SandyEm: Collections together
SandyEm: Long shot