Description
Brown album relating to the service of Lieutenant Commander Peter Corsar Anderson, RAN. The album contains 50 pages, including front and back covers, and 132 black and white prints.
Topics include: night photography, test firing, cats in hammocks on deck, smokescreens, Trafalgar Day commemorations, live shell firing, a sports day, a pridal party, a welcome parade in Adelaide (May 1927, aerial views of HMAS Cerberus), panoramas of various coastlines made from deck, possibly of Jervis Bay. Ships include HMAS Sydney, HMAS Melbourne, HMAS Renown. Locations include Melbourne, Sydney, Birkenhead Wharf, and others.
Names mentioned are primarily officers (surnames only) and include: Cush, Ollerhead, Carter, Knight, Cmdr Rotherham, Captain Dannreuther and Mrs Dannreuther, Lucas, Ince, Fitzgerald. 15 blank pages at the end of the album as well as the first page. Several loose photographs found in the album are accessioned under AWM2020.633.1.
Details
Accession Number
AWM2020.633.14
Classification
Photograph
Physical Description
Support: Paper (Fibre-based)
Date Made
c. April 1927- June 1928
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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