Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

SET, 2 BRACE ATTACHMENTS

Date Range From

1939

Date Range To

1945

Materials

COTTON, BRASS

No. Pieces

2

Height

1.7

Length

23.9

Width

3.4

Description

SET OF TWO BRACES ATTACHMENTS. ATTACH TO BELT BY 6.5CM BRASS GATE SLIDES, THE BRACE CONNECTING TO A 2.5CM DOUBLE BRASS BUCKLE FIXED TO GATE BY 2.5CM WEB STRAP. METAL SURFACE OF ONE BUCKLE SCRATCHED, WITH SOME CORROSION. OLIVE GREEN WEBBING SOILED ON BOTH BRACES.

Subjects

CLOTHING-ACCESSORY

MULTIPLE USE ARTIFACT

Historical Association

MILITARY

History

ITEMS BELONGED TO DONOR'S FATHER, HERBERT T. HACKER. BORN IN LETHBRIDGE IN 1910; MARRIED LINDA (NIEMAN) IN 1940. LIVED IN NEW WESTMINSTER WHEN SECOND WORLD WAR BROKE OUT. ENLISTED IN WEST COAST WESTMINSTER MOBILE REGIMENT AS AIR RAID WARDEN, THEN IN SEAFORTH REGIMENT. SENT OVERSEAS AND SERVED IN THE NETHERLANDS. WAS INJURED AND TRANSFERRED TO CALGARY HIGHLANDERS REGIMENT, 2ND DIVISION. LATER RECLASSIFIED AS ARMY OF OCCUPATION IN GERMANY 3RD DIVISION (1945). RETURNED HOME IN 1945 AND DISCHARGED IN 1946 AFTER RECOVERING FROM JAUNDIS. WORKED AT LETHBRIDGE IRONWORKS UNTIL RETIRING IN 1978. PASSED AWAY IN 1992 AT AGE 82. HAD FOUR CHILDREN: DONNA, THOMAS, JANICE, AND HEATHER. BRACE ATTACHMENT USED BY TROOPS WHO WERE ARMED ONLY WITH PISTOLS, OR NOT AT ALL, AND THUS DID NOT REQUIRE LARGE AMMUNITION POUCHES OR CARTRIDGE CARRIERS. ATTACHED BRACES TO FRONT OF BELT; INTERCHANGEABLE. SHOULDER SACK COULD ALSO BE CONNECTED TO THIS ATTACHMENT TO ACCOMMODATE THE HAVERSACK OR LARGE PACK.

Catalogue Number

P19970106009

Acquisition Date

1998-09

Collection

Museum

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