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Dinner Menu Card from Steamship ‘DUNTROON’ dated 25th July 1941

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Melbourne Steamship Line

1941

Overview

Dinner Menu Card (bi-fold) from “Melbourne Steamship Line / T.S.M.V. ‘DUNTROON’ “, dated 25th July 1941. The vessel flag logo top centre in blue, white and red colours. Numerous signatures written in pencil and black ink, with one signature in blue ink, number “WX7702”.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2007.1.4

Item type

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 2

Material

Width

120 mm

Height or length

195 mm

Weight

10 g

Inscriptions and markings

Inside inscribed, “Au Revoir and Best Wishes / to the / 2nd 4th Machine Gun Battalion A. J.F. / “Autographs”, and adjoining page shows the Dinner Menu and Commanders name of “I.L. LLOYD”.

Contextual information

This menu card is from the “Melbourne Steamship Line / T.S.M.V. ‘DUNTROON’ “, dated Friday 25th July 1941. This item is part of a family collection belonging to Pte Thomas MINCHIN. On the 21st July 1941 Thomas and other soldiers of the 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion left Australia on deployment.

Keywords

Melbourne Steamship Line

2/4th Machine Gun Battalion

Place made

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Year

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

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Comparative significance criteria

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Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

Google Maps search term / URL

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gWHZtRH1mm24SAjK8

Geotag

-35.030449, 117.912878
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Last modified

Monday, 22 September, 2025

Completeness

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Dinner Menu Card from Steamship ‘DUNTROON’, dated 25th July 1941

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