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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 Germans responsible for the beating at Namatanai, New Ireland, of the Reverend W.H. Cox on 26 October 1914. The complete story is in the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18, pages 120 to 126. (Donor Major H. Gordon)
Length of brown bamboo cane with a hole drilled 8 cm from the top. A double loop of white twine forming a wrist strap has been knotted through this hole. On the orders of Colonel William Holmes, thi
The Royal Standard No. 5 Typewriter is a flat bed design with 4 rows of keys. The space bar is made of wood and has a wear mark where the right thumb of the users would have struck it. The ribbon reel
RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN. PROTECTORATE OF GERMAN NEW GUINEA. 1914-11-30. THE SCENE JUST BEFORE THE PUBLIC CANING IN PROCLAMATION SQUARE OF THE PERPETRATORS, GERMANS WEARING MASKS, OF THE ATTACK ON THE BRIT
The flogging of a German by orders of Colonel William Holmes, as a reprisal for the flogging of a British missionary, the Reverend W A Cox, by masked Germans. The floggers were captured and flogged i
The flogging of a German by orders of Colonel William Holmes, as a reprisal for the flogging of a British missionary, the Reverend W A Cox, by masked Germans. The floggers were captured and flogged i
Length of brown bamboo cane with a hole drilled 8 cm from the top. A double loop of white twine forming a wrist strap has been knotted through this hole. On the orders of Colonel William Holmes, thi
AWM51 104 - [Confidential and security classified records originally maintained by the Australian War Memorial Library:] Flogging of Rev W H Cox at Namatanai New Ireland October 1914, subsequent actio
Rabaul, New Britain. 13 September 1914. The arrival of Colonel William Holmes, Commanding Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF), and his staff at Proclamation Square. (Donor F. Bu
