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Accession Number | RCDIG0000360 |
Collection number | 1DRL/0241 |
Collection type | Digitised Collection |
Record type | File |
Item count | 1 |
Object type | Document |
Physical description | 1 Image/s captured |
Maker |
Devlin, Errol Cappie Nepean |
Place made | New Guinea1 |
Date made | 1914 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Proclamation on the annexation of German possessions in the Pacific, November 1914.
Description
Document relating to the First World War service of 1166 Private Errol Cappie Nepean Devlin, 18th Battalion. The Proclamation, written in Pidgin, was read out to the New Guineans upon their annexation as German territory. This handwritten copy was sent by Private Devlin to his brother, Lance, on 9 November 1914.