Telegram from the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company on Direction Island received in the Sydney off...
Telegram from the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company on Direction Island received in the Sydney off...
Telegram from the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company on Direction Island received in the Sydney offices of the Company, 11 November 1914, related to SMS Emden
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Date
11 November 1914
Call Numbers
MLMSS 9772
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Contents
0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder)
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Copyright status : In copyright
Copyright holder : State Library of New South Wales
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Contents
Original telegram, typescript of approximately 200 words printed on 4 leaves of wax paper, unsigned. Each leaf stamped 'Eastern Extension Telegraph Company Ltd. Sydney, Nov 11 1914'.
Two manuscript maps related to the war cruise of SMS Emden, also collected by Captain John Eaton, are available in the printed catalogue at Call number: MT3 995.31/...
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Full title
Telegram from the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company on Direction Island received in the Sydney offices of the Company, 11 November 1914, related to SMS Emden
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Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Peter Arnold Pty Ltd antiquarian booksellers, June 2012
Collection history
The provenance of this material cited by the vendor is from Captain John Eaton, commander of the Trial Bay Gaol Internment Camp by decent to the previous owner, his granddaughter Heather Eaton.
Administrative / Biographical history
This telegram is attributed to Darcy Farrant, superintendent of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company's wireless station on Direction Island in the Cocos group. The German raider SMS Emden had landed on Direction Island and disabled the wireless station on the 9th November 1914, but not before Farrant had alerted HMAS Sydney nearby. The day after...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 9772
Record Identifier
n7oXDr3n
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n7oXDr3n
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Reference code
1000203
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