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‘The Australian and New Zealand Expeditionary Forces’ book

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Albany Advertiser proprietors W.F. Forster and Co Photographers W.H. Campbell and A.G. Sands

1915

Overview

Book titled ‘The Australian and New Zealand Expeditionary Forces’. Subtitled ‘Assemblage At and Departure from Albany Western Australia’. In background is coloured Union Jack and a photo of HMAS AUSTRALIA is in the centre.

Historical information

Book compiled by ‘The Albany Advertiser” showing photos and some text relating to the assemblage of troops and ships making up the First and Second Convoys of leaving Albany in 1914.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2018.8.1

Item type

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 1

Material

Width

314 mm

Height or length

225 mm

Depth

2 mm

Weight

97 g

Inscriptions and markings

On front : “The Australian and New Zealand Expeditionary Forces / Assemblage at and Departure from Albany Western Australia”
On reverse : “1. H.M.A.S Sydney leaving Albany on 1st November, sixteen days before she caught the Emden / 2. H.M.S. Minotaur”

Keywords

First World War

Place made

Albany, Western Australia, Australia

Year

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Scientific or research significance

Google Maps search term / URL

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

Geotag

-35.030449, 117.912878

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Auckland Museum

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Tuesday, 28 January, 2025

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