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COLONEL WILLIAM HOLMES AND STAFF AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE, NAMANULA, RABAUL, 1914. STANDING, LEFT TO RIGHT: LIEUTENANT F.G. CRESSWELL RAN, CAPTAIN R.J.A. TRAVERS. SITTING: COLONEL HOLMES AND MAJOR F.B. HERITAGE. (OCTOBER/ NOVEMBER.) (DONATED BY MR. W.H. LUCAS.)
COLONEL WILLIAM HOLMES AND STAFF AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE, NAMANULA, RABAUL, 1914. STANDING, LEFT TO RIGHT: LIEUTENANT F.G. CRESSWELL RAN, CAPTAIN R.J.A. TRAVERS. SITTING: COLONEL WILLIAM HOLMES AND MAJOR
GERMAN GOVERNMENT HOUSE, RABAUL, UNDER OCCUPATION BY THE AUSTRALIAN NAVY AND MILITARY EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (AN&MEF). AN AUSTRALIAN SENTRY CAN BE SEEN AT THE GATE. 1914-10. (DONATED BY MR. W.H. LUCAS.)
THE S.S. MATUNGA, THE FIRST COMMERCIAL SHIP TO ARRIVE AFTER THE OCCUPATION BY THE AUSTRALIAN NAVY AND MILITARY EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (AN&MEF), AT MADANG WHARF, IN WHAT WAS FORMERLY GERMAN NEW GUINEA, 19
A GROUP AT A CRICKET MATCH BETWEEN TEAMS FROM THE MILITARY (AN&MEF) AND CIVILIANS. (DONOR W. H. LUCAS.)
Rabaul, New Britain. 30 November 1914. The flogging at Proclamation Square, by order of Colonel William Holmes the Commander of the Australian Navy & Military Expeditionary Force, of one of the German
Colonel Basil Holmes relates the story of his father, Major General William Holmes CMG DSO VD, as Colonel William Holmes, raising in August 1914 a military and naval expeditionary force for the occupa