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

Melbourne Steamship Line
1941
Overview

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

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-12-2007.1.7
Item type
Menus
Themes
War and Conflict > World War 2
Material
Card
Ink
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 “At Sea” and “Wednesday, July 23rd, 1941”.

Contextual information

This luncheon menu card is from the “Melbourne Steamship Line / T.S.M.V. ‘DUNTROON’ dated Wednesday 23rd July 1941. Pte Thomas MINCHIN and other soldiers of the 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion left Australia on deployment on the 21st July 1941.

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
Comparative significance criteria
Interpretive capacity
Rare or representative
Well provenanced
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Geotag
-35.030449, 117.912878
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Last modified
Monday, 22 September, 2025
Completeness
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Luncheon menu card from the “Melbourne Steamship Line , T.S.M.V. ‘DUNTROON’
Luncheon menu card from the “Melbourne Steamship Line , T.S.M.V. ‘DUNTROON’

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