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Dinner Menu Card from Steamship ‘DUNTROON’ dated 23rd July 1941

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Melbourne Steamship Line

1941

Overview

Dinner Menu Card, single page, from “Melbourne Steamship Line / T.S.M.V. ‘DUNTROON’ “, dated 23rd July 1941. Commander listed as “I.L. LLOYD”, and the vessel flag logo top centre in blue, red and white colours.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2007.1.5

Item type

Menus

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 2

Material

Card

Ink

Pencil

Width

124 mm

Height or length

210 mm

Weight

8 g

Inscriptions and markings

Centre top is the Melbourne Steamship Company flag emblem in blue, white and red colours and at bottom left “At Sea”. On rear written in pencil “ WX9222 / TA MINCHIN/ 2/4/MG / July 23rd 1941.”

Contextual information

This menu card is from the “Melbourne Steamship Line / T.S.M.V. ‘DUNTROON’ “, dated Friday 23rd 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

World War 2

Place made

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Year

1941

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Historic significance

Social or spiritual significance