2001.50.2
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Images, Electronic
- Description
- - whistle
- military
- black and white twisted cord (L-85.6cm D-.5cm) with loop at one end; gold clip at other end attached to silver coloured cylindrical whistle (L-8.4cm D-1.7cm).
- stamped on whistle: "MADE In/ ENGLAND"
- Date 1942
- Sydney A. Kemsley enlisted for active service in 1943, having previously trained with the 2nd Battalion, Kent Regiment. He was sent to England and later fought and was wounded in France while serving with the Royal Suffolk Regiment. Following convalescence in Nottingham, England, Kemsley was promoted to Captain and was sent to Ireland as a training officer. He was discharged and returned to Chatham in March 1946.
- 1.7cm D / 96.4cm L
Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 108 - Date of Publication
- 1942
- Subject(s)
- Collection
- Chatham Kent Museum
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original
- Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 108 - Terms of Use
- Copies are provided for research and private study only. Permission to use images in any other way including, but not limited to, publication, exhibition, film, video or TV broadcast, or on any CD or website, must be obtained in writing from an authorized representative of the Chatham-Kent Museum prior to use. This applies to low-resolution copies downloaded from this site at no cost and to high resolution copies.
- Contact
- Chatham-Kent MuseumEmail:ckcccmuseum@chatham-kent.ca
Website:
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Chatham, ON N7M 4L4
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