Object Record
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Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
1960.036.005 |
Object Name |
Nightstick |
Description |
Wooden nightstick/patrol billy is a long club tapered at one end and studded with iron studs at the other. The studs have square heads. There is a crack in the wood at the end with the studs and there appears to be an internal core in this end. A string loop is threaded a hole in the other end. |
Date |
1914 |
Date |
1918 |
Dimensions |
L-44.5 Dia-5.4 cm |
History |
Nightstick was made by the Royal Canadian Engineers for night patrols in the trenches in France in the First World War. |
Search Terms |
Royal Canadian Engineers First World War |