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

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Melbourne Steamship Line

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

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 2

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.

Keywords

Melbourne Steamship Line

2/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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

Geotag

-35.030449, 117.912878
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Last modified

Monday, 22 September, 2025

Completeness

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