Accession Number | PUBS002/001/001/002/043 |
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Collection number | Souvenirs 2 1/1/2/43 |
Collection type | Published Collection |
Record type | Item |
Item count | 1 |
Measurement | Overall: 20.7 x 16.5cm |
Object type | Souvenir |
Maker |
Crooke, Cyril Ednott |
Place made | At sea |
Date made | 1918 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copying Provisions | Digital format and content protected by copyright. |
Item 43: Programme
Souvenirs 2, Concert and Theatre Programs Collection - First World War 1914-1918
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Description
Souvenir program for a concert party held to entertain troops during the First World War. This program is for the Neptune's concert party performance aboard HMAT Medic on 5 October 1918. The cover features a watercolour of a ship at sea with a sprig of maidenhair fern. The watercolour illustration was painted by Lieutenant Cyril Ednot Crooke of the Australian Flying Corps. The back cover of the program features twenty signatures with ten of these servicemen being recipients of the Victoria Cross.