• Title
  [Photographs relating to the Sydney-Emden Battle off Cocos Island]
• Call number
  PXB 241
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1914 (dated from the time of the Battle off Cocos Island in 1914)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records
• Reference code
  69736
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 8.5 x 13.5 cm. - 19 silver gelatin photoprints
  Textual Records - (typescript) 1 leaf
  
• Scope and Content
  1. A view on Cocos Island
  2. Germans landing at Cocos Island to destroy wireless station and cables
  3. German sailors collecting stores
  4. Germans and local residents watching the fight
  5. Germans and local Islanders
  6. German officer being directed to wireless station
  7. British sailors approaching Cocos Island wharf
  8. British sailors landing on Island
  9. H.M.S. Sydney off Cocos Island
  10. Lowering boat from H.M.S. Sydney to board the Enmden beached after battle
  11. Boats from Sydney preparing to return to ship
  12. Emden on beach, Cocos Island
  13. Boat returning to H.M.S. Sydney
  14. Schooner in which some of the Germans escaped from Cocos Island
  15. Showing destroyed instruments
  16. German officer and the destroyed wireless aerial
  17. Destruction of cable station
  18. Gathering the "dummy" cable ends which were cut by the Germans
  19. Stores commandeered and ready for shipment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  A bibliography of service's and women's diaries of World War I is held in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at PXn 878
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1025656
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on reverse
• Name
  Australia. Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
  Emden (German cruiser)
  Sydney (Cruiser : 1913-1929)
  World War (1914-1918)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  armies
  boats
  campaigns & battles
  cruisers
  English people
  Germans
  groups (people)
  islands
  Malays (Asian people)
  naval operations
  radio stations
  radio transmitters
  sailors
  schooners (ships)
  
• Place
  Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1510622

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