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Misc: Photograph album of naval convoy on voyage from Australia to UK


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 89

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: Misc: Photograph album of naval convoy on voyage from Australia to UK

Date(s): [1917]

Level of description: collection level

Extent: 1 album

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photographs taken on board an unidentified ship; [1917]; including views of other ships in convoy HMS LYSANDER, HMAT SHROPSHIRE, HMS IMPLACABLE, HMS MANTUA, HMAT ASCANIAS, RMS RIMUTAKA, HMAT TOFUA, HMS KING ALFRED, SS HIGHLAND GLEN, HMS KENT, HMHS OXFORDSHIRE, HMAT SUFFOLK, HMAT MARATHON, and HMS ORAMAH; pictures of crew and passengers; scenes of life and work onboard, including sailing from Melbourne, Australia; disembarking at Plymouth, England; church services; transferring officers by rowing boat; a boxing match; landing troops; the wireless room; Sundays at sea; views of various locations en route including Table Mountain, Hout Bay, docks and post office, Cape Town, South Africa; street and village scenes in Sierra Leone; trips to Lane Gove River, Sydney, and an Aboriginal corroboree (Aboriginal dance), Port Darwin, Australia.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One volume

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archives and Information Management.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated to the Centre in May 2007.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: May 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Indigenous populations | Ethnic groups
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names

Corporate names
RN | Royal Navy x Royal Navy

Places
Cape Town | South Africa | Southern Africa
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Melbourne | Australia | Oceania
Plymouth | Devon | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Sierra Leone | West Africa | Africa
Sydney | New South Wales | Australia | Oceania
Victoria