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1 item, numbered 4, (originally illustrating Lieutenant Colonel Gamble's journal...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/2057
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This record is about the 1 item, numbered 4, (originally illustrating Lieutenant Colonel Gamble's journal... dating from 1862 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MR 1/2057
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1862
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item, numbered 4, (originally illustrating Lieutenant Colonel Gamble's journal of operations, 8 April to 7 May 1862) extracted from WO 107/7 (bundle V). New Zealand: North Island. 'Rough tracing of road (Great South) from Drury to Pokeno, from bearings laid down by Capt Greaves 70th D.A.Q.M.G.': map also showing the nature of the terrain, streams, bushland, clearings, bridges, farms (with their owners' names), a slaughter house, and the headquarters and camps of various army regiments. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile. Compass indicator. Signed by Lieutenant Colonel D J Gamble, Deputy Quartermaster General, Drury, 7 May 1862. Stamped at the Quartermaster General's Department, 19 May 1862.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For items numbered 1-3 and 5-40, see MFQ 1/778
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 18.5 cm x 155.5 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:10560
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- MS, coloured, on tracing paper. Damaged
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- Open Document, Open Description
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