Army Bag
Backpack
Rucksack
Admiral Digby Museum
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| Object Name: | Army Bag Backpack Rucksack |
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| Object Type: | Bag |
| Category: | Personal Carrying & Storage Gear |
| Material: | Canvas body Leather straps Metal buckles |
| Accession Number: | 2021.197.01 |
| Earliest Production Date: | 1/1/1942 |
| Latest Production Date: | 12/31/1946 |
| Description: | Brown canvas bag, one large main compartment that would have been tied closed using a string/rope through the grommets and flap would have been pulled over and buckled in. There are two smaller pockets in the front with flaps and leather straps and metal buckles to close them. There are two material straps on the back of the bag. There is some worn out text on the inside of the flap. Potentially would have been a name and address. |
| Narrative: | Used in in the Army by Mechanical Engineer Sgt. Thurston Banks who served from 1942 to 1946. Thurston Banks was born and raised in Rossway, N.S. He was a Canadian Heavy Weight boxer, and was runner up for best in Canada Armed Forces. |
| Height: | 16 inches |
| Width: | 12 inches |
| Depth: | 10 inches |
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| Institution City: | Digby |
| Institution Province: | Nova Scotia |