The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 station. They succeeded in reaching Germany early in 1915. Their ship did not return to collect them as she was defeated in a fight with HMAS Sydney on the same day, and ran ashore on a reef at North Keeling Island.
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
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 C
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
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
The staff of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company on Direction Island watch the action between HMAS Sydney and the German commerce raider Emden. The Sydney defeated the Emden, which ran ashore on
