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

1941
Overview

Breakfast Menu Card, single page, from “Melbourne Steamship Line / T.S.M.V. ‘DUNTROON’ “, dated 23rd July 1941. The vessel flag logo situated top centre, with the Commander named as “I.L. LLOYD”, and the menu items listed.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-12-2007.1.6
Item type
Material
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/ / July 23rd 1941.”

Contextual information

This breakfast 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.

Place made
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Year
Primary significance criteria
Artistic or aesthetic significance
Historic significance
Social or spiritual significance
Comparative significance criteria
Object’s condition or completeness
Rare or representative
Well provenanced
Google Maps search term / URL
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gWHZtRH1mm24SAjK8
Last modified
Monday, 22 September, 2025
Completeness
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Breakfast menu card from the “Melbourne Steamship Line, T.S.M.V. ‘DUNTROON’
Breakfast menu card from the “Melbourne Steamship Line, T.S.M.V. ‘DUNTROON’
Rear View
Rear View

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