Cushion cover

Description

Part of a collection of keepsakes given to Miss Gwendoline Rogers by a Canadian soldier named ‘Larter’, of the 111th South Waterloo Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, First World War, embroidered cushion cover featuring ‘Canada’ text covered with maple leaves, given post-war by Larter’s mother

Museum reference

M.2009.26.4

Collection

Warfare and Defence

Object name

Cushion cover

Date

1914 - 1918

Associations

Previous owner: Rogers, Gwendoline, Miss, 1914 - 1918 (fl.)
Non-British forces, inc. Imperial and Colonial: 111th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force (South Waterloo)
Larter, 1914 (fl.)
First World War
Canada, North America

Exhibitions

• Common Cause: Commonwealth Scots and the Great War (11 Jul 2014 - 12 Oct 2014)
  National Museum of Scotland