Sailors draw their dinner rations on board the German commerce raider Emden. The photograph was ...

Accession Number EN0233
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made At sea
Date made 1914
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Sailors draw their dinner rations on board the German commerce raider Emden. The photograph was given to a seaman of HMAS Sydney when she took some of the German sailors prisoner after destroying the Emden near Cocos Island on 9 November 1914.