The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
HMAS Sydney steaming to Direction Island after her successful action against the German raider Emden on 9 November. A party from the Emden had landed on the 9th and taken over the Eastern Extension Cable Company's cable station. By the time HMAS Sydney sent a party ashore, the Germans had already escaped in the schooner Ayesha, belonging to the owner of the island; they returned to Germany early in 1915.
An Australian Special Forces cutaway helmet with a vegetation camouflage pattern. This type of helmet is manufactured by South African company, Global Armour. This watercolour was drawn in Canberra
The schooner Ayesha at Direction Island. The party from the German raider Emden used the Ayesha to escape from the island after raiding and taking possession of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Compan
A party of armed sailors from HMAS Sydney lands on Direction Island. A party from the German raider Emden had landed and taken possession of the cable station on the island, but on the evening of the
German officers and seamen from the raider Emden embarking in small boats to board the schooner Ayesha, in which they escaped from Direction Island after raiding and taking control of the cable statio
The interior of the cable station on Direction Island, showing the damage done by a party from the German raider Emden when they took it over on 9 November. When a party from HMAS Sydney landed on 11
Germans commandeer cable station stores to provision the yacht Ayesha, owned by the Clunies-Ross family, after the German raider SMS Emden was driven ashore at North Keeling Island by HMAS Sydney on 9
Two Australian sailors repair the cable cut by a party of Germans from the raider SMS Emden. After the Emden was driven ashore at North Keeling Island by HMAS Sydney on 9 November 1914, the German par
