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Museum staff with Koen Verlaeckt, [wearing glasses & to the left] and David Jordens [to Koen's left]
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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.
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Regimental badge carved from chalk at Flanders and Cigarette box - Royal Navy Brigade, Antwerp
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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
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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.