Wallet 1 of 1 - Logbook and narrative relating to the service of Lieutenant-Commander Gerald Ashby Hill, 1928

Hill, Gerald Ashby (Lieutenant-Commander, b.1880 - d.1931)

Places	Asia: Malaysia Oceania: New Guinea Oceania: New Guinea1, Aitape Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, East New Britain, Rabaul Oceania: New Guinea1, Wewak Madang Area, Alexishafen Oceania: New Guinea1, Wewak Madang Area, Sepik River Area Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula, Rabaul Area, Kabakaul Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Herbertshohe Oceania: Pacific Islands, Fiji Oceania: Pacific Islands, Fiji, Suva
Accession Number	AWM2021.22.139
Collection number	1DRL/0351
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	Wallet
Item count	1
Object type	Log book, Papers
Physical description	166 Image/s captured
Maker	Hill, Gerald Ashby
Place made	Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made	1928
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Source credit to	This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

Description

Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant-Commander Gerald Ashby Hill, Royal Australian Navy (RAN), German New Guinea, Malaysia and Mediterranean, 1914-1918.

Wallet 1 of 1 – Wallet consists of a photostat copy of an Australian Destroyer log book, HMAS Yarra, written by Gerald Ashby Hill and an extract from the narrative of Hill’s service. The logbook begins on 30 July 1914 and describes in depth the landing of The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force personnel at Kabakaul on 11 September 1914, which resulted in the first Australian casualties of the war; attacks on Simpson Haven; RAN activities in and around Rabaul, Herbertshohe, Rossel Island, Port Moresby and Suva; the capture of Madang and the German warship “Komet”; serving alongside the HMAS Parramatta and the HMAS Warrego; Hill’s journey up the Sepik River in search of German weapons and the customs and living conditions of the indigenous people in this area. Copies were made of this logbook by the Australian War Memorial, Melbourne in 1930 but the location of the original is unknown. The extract from Hill's narrative outlines his service in Corfu, Malta and Port Said, along with a brief description of an attack involving the HMAS Torrens on the night of 22 April 1918.