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ALBUM - A handmade memorial - made by Dorothy Broad.Greymouth.1914 - 1916.

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DescriptionThe maker of this doll, Dorothy Broad was engaged to Captain Thomas Wyville Leonard Rutherfurd (Service Number 6/718), of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (13th Reinforcements). Wyville, as he was known to friends and family, saw action in Gallipoli and France in the First World War.

In early 1918, Wyville went with a unit of experienced soldiers to Persia (Iran). While in Kasvin, Northern Iran, in October 1918, he died from disease aggravated by military service, which may been influenza. He was later re-buried in the British Military Cemetery in Tehran.

Dorothy made a small woollen doll, complete with knitted khaki cap, breast pockets and epaulettes. According to a family story, Dorothy made the woollen doll to stand in for her sweetheart while he was away. The 'woollen 'Wyville' is embellished with the same unit cap badge as Wyville (the 13th Reinforcements), two military brass buttons and also wears a replica paper wristwatch.

Dorothy kept the doll as part of her collection of her fiance's returned effects, adding to her personal memorials to Wyville's memory. Dorothy lived to 1976, but never married.

Soldier doll, 1914-1916, New Zealand, by Dorothy Broad. Purchased 2009. © Te Papa. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Te Papa (GH016389)Date of Photo1914 - 16Map^[1]ContributorHeather Newby

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Location (city or town)GreymouthPersonDorothy BroadThomas Wyville Leonard RutherfurdEvent A handmade memorial - made by Dorothy Broad.Greymouth.1914 - 1916.

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Date Created25th September 2023CommentsRob Lunn
Wow if that is not a token of love and devotion I don’t know what is we baby boomers have some but no real idea what those people went through in those war years respect respect respect

Peter McIntosh
Rutherfurd was serving in Mesopotamia as part of the secretive Dunsterforce expedition (the "hush hush brigade") put together to conduct special ops in northern Iraq / Baku.

Gary Grant
Peter McIntosh My Grandad father was in the Dunsterforce .These were hand picked kiwi and Aussies for a mission kept under wraps

Italina Sowman
Wars are terrible things. We had a lovely elderly lady that lived next door to us I only ever knew her as Miss Scott she lost her fiancée in 1917 all she had was his photo and her engagement ring she never married

Rob Lunn
Interesting Peter but it also leads to the fact that more people died from sickness and disease than were actually killed in battle WW1 and 2 virtually wiped out a generation of young men on both sides of the coin I’m pleased that I missed it

Dave Lyes
Rob Lunn sorry I must disagree.
About a third died from disease amongst all sides in the war and which included the great flu epidemic of 1918.
⅔ died of combat related wounds.

Chantal Brown
A Robinson doll! I loved the book called Wandering Robinson as a child, it included Instructions to make this wool doll (minus the amazing uniform).

Claire Ward
He left for the war from Reefton where he was working in mining.

Hazel Oldham
That s so clever i

Pam Skeats
Beautiful

Tesandrew Sanerloachy
Salute.

Gary Murdoch
Would he have served at Gallipoli given that only six reinforcement drafts went there?

Kitty Fenton
still looking good after all this time.

Rosemary Horne
Gorgeous

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ALBUM - A handmade memorial - made by Dorothy Broad.Greymouth.1914 - 1916.

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