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After deck - SS "Laconia"
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
Looking aft from the Rangefinder Platform. In the foreground is a canvas wind scoop. On top of the deck house A.A crews near their protective gun posts. Right aft is a 3-inch A.A gun in a casement, Ar...ART21016
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Bottle of German POW distilled spirits, HMNZT Willochra : Major I Isaacson, Special Service, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Metal container made of tin containing spirits. The body is a piece of long rectangular tin shaped into an oval and soldered along the long edge in the middle back of the container. Soldered to each e...RELAWM12206
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Church service, HMT "Zealandia"
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
Church service for all ranks held in the lounge during the voyage from Melbourne to Fremantle.ART30024
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File 1: Troopships A-C
Published Collection
Maker: Various
This file contains programs and other souvenirs related to entertainment aboard troopships during the First World War. Some of these performances relate to performances held whilst troops were returni...PUBS002/001/001/001
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HMAS Shropshire, convoy off New Guinea (News From Home No. 96)
Film
Extracts from News From Home No. 96. A convoy off New Guinea is escorted by HMAS Shropshire. Shows activities on board, ship to ship refuelling, ammunition hoisted aboard, Commodore Collins and crew p...F00787
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Middleton, Walter Robert (Supply Staff Sergeant)
Manuscript
Maker: Middleton, Walter Robert
Poem written by Supply Staff Sergeant Walter Robert Middleton titled `Xmas Day', written at sea on board the transport `Port Macquarie' on route from Sydney to Alexandria. Discusses leaving loved ones...MSS1414
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On the SS "Katoomba"
Art
Maker: Emanuel, Cedric
In December 1942 Flying Officer Cedric Emanuel (266681) embarked from Townsville to Port Moresby on the troopship SS "Katoomba" and captured this depiction of Australian soldiers relaxing on the deck....ART28341
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Operation at sea - HMT "Duntroon"
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
An emergency appendix operation on a member of the ship's company during the voyage from Durban to Fremantle. Army doctors, assisted by nursing sisters did the operation in the First Class Dining Salo...ART21756
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Practice shoot - Bofors Gun
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
The port Bofors anti-aircraft gun carrying out a practice shoot during the voyage of the troopship SS "Laconia" from Aden to Bombay with A.I.F. troops bound for Australia. Firing a smoke burst, the gu...ART21015
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The stokehold - HMT "Zealandia"
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
In contrast with modern oil field boilers and their clean boiler rooms, this stokehold is covered with dust and grime from the cinders which must be cleaned from the boiler regularly.ART30023
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Wheelhouse, H.M.T "Duntroon"
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
Sketch made in the wheelhouse during the run from Colombo to Mombasa, and after alterations had to be made to the bridge, Southern Ocean.ART21064