Portrait of Captain von Muller who commanded the German Navy light cruiser Emden when it became ...

Accession Number H12375
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Deutsche Reichsarchiv
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

Portrait of Captain von Muller who commanded the German Navy light cruiser Emden when it became involved in a battle with the Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Sydney which resulted in the German ship, on 9 November 1914, running aground on North Keeling Island one of the Cocos-Keeling Group in the Indian Ocean. (Donor Imperial War Museum Q45324)

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