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 Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma › |
Full 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 & 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.
Finding aids:
Summary guide entry on-line.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated to the Centre in May 2007.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
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
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