Place | Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli |
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Accession Number | RCDIG0001457 |
Collection number | PR85/339 |
Collection type | Digitised Collection |
Record type | File |
Item count | 4 |
Object type | Newspaper cutting |
Physical description | 4 Image/s captured |
Maker |
Daily Mirror The Argus Newspaper The Herald, Melbourne |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London |
Date made | 1915-1916 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copying Provisions | Digital format and content protected by copyright. |
Newspaper cuttings relating to James Charles Martin, 1915-1916
Newspaper cuttings relating to the First World War service of 1553 Private James Charles Martin, 21st Battalion. These cuttings relate to the torpedoing of the troop transport Southland in September 1915 whilst en route from Egypt to Gallipoli, and also the death of Martin in October of that year. This file contains:
Newspaper cutting titled ‘The transport Southland is torpedoed but reaches port in safety’, The Daily Mirror, 22 November 1915;
Newspaper cutting containing illustration of transport Southland with caption ‘The transport Southland, formerly the well-known Antwerp Liner Vaterland, which was torpedoed while conveying Australian and New Zealand troops to Gallipoli’, The Argus, 23 November 1915;
Newspaper cutting titled ‘Youngest soldier dies’, The Herald, 18 December 1915;
Newspaper cutting titled ‘A grand sight! I never felt prouder of the boys!’, The Herald, 12 December 1916.