The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Torquay, Devon, England. July 1935. Two contestants (left) in the Miss Europe competition on board HMAS Australia posing for the camera with an unidentified Sub-Lieutenant. HMAS Australia was in England to take part in the Silver Jubilee Review. Note the sailors looking on. (Donor A. Lee)
Spithead, Portsmouth, England. c May 1935. A fireworks display in London. This was followed by a searchlight display. These celebrations were a part of the Silver Jubilee Review in which HMAS Australi
King George V's Royal Yacht, Victoria and Albert, seen from the cruiser HMAS Australia, steaming between the lines of Royal Navy warships drawn up for the 1935 Silver Jubilee Review at Spithead, Ports
Spithead, Portsmouth, England. 1935. A postcard depicting silhouettes of the ships which participated in the Silver Jubilee Review at Spithead. The ships are formed up in lines. A photograph of King G
Alexandria. December 1935. Informal portrait of sailors crowded around a large metal mixing bowl making duff (an English pudding) on board HMAS Australia. (Donor A. Lee)
Portsmouth, England. 1935. A Supermarine Walrus amphibian aircraft A2-1 in flight after being catapaulted from HMAS Australia during catapult trials. Note that there are many sailors watching the tria
The County Class heavy cruiser HMAS Australia in the floating dry dock at Alexandria. She arrived there from England following her attendance at the July Silver Jubilee Review held at Spithead. After
