Photographs of the Queensland and north Australian coasts, 1923-1929 / by Commander H.T. Bennett of HMAS Geranium

PXA 1723

fonds

1923-1929

Graphic Materials, Photographs

901682

59 photographs - various sizes

Commander Harry Thring Bennett DSO, RN, was born in 1888. Between 1923 and 1929, while on loan from the Royal Navy, he was in command of HMAS Geranium during a survey of the Great Barrier Reef. He died in 1968.
HMAS Geranium was an Arabis class sloop which was operated by the Royal Navy as a minesweeper from 1915 until 1919, when she was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) for use as a survey ship.

Photographs include HMAS Geranium, Commander Bennett and crew members, surveying scenes, Aboriginal people, obelisk erected in memory of Matthew Flinders in the Sir Edward Pellew Group of islands.

Out of copyright: created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Pic.acc. Update Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.6472 as part of the eRecords Project, 2012-2013

Identified on verso and listing provided by donor (original is on file, copy with Pic.Acc.)

Condition good