An eye-witness historical account of life at sea in the Pacific immediately before and at the beginning of World War I, including the "Battle of Cocos" (Keeling Islands) as experienced from the HMAS Sydney by Able Seaman Rich Horne of the Royal Australian Navy who was seriously wounded in the fighting.
About The Author
- cocos.sydney
- Melbourne, Australia
- An account of experiences on the HMAS Sydney from 1913 to 1914 including the "Battle of Cocos", off Western Australia near Christmas Island.
Contents
- A good yarn
- 1. Arrival in Australia
- 2. Gunnery school, Melbourne
- 3. The Great Barrier Reef
- 4. German New Guinea and Queensland
- 5. Indigenous people
- 6. Fiji
- 7. Australian First Expiditionary Force
- 8. The "Battle of Cocos"
- 9. Injured in battle
- 10. Amputation
- 11. Wounded sailors
- 12. Return to Melbourne
- 13, Settled in Melbourne
- Browse the manuscript
Cocos palm via Wikipedia
Resources
- 100 years Sydney-Emden
- Anniversary stamps
- Book: First Victory
- The film: The men of the Emden (German)
- Battle report by Emden's Captain
- About WW1 - Niall Ferguson
- Battle of Cocos - Wikipedia
- National Library war photos
- HMAS Sydney: BPK Image archive of Prussian Culture
- images of WWI and the Emden
- Boy soldiers in WWI
- Keeling Islands
- History of Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- CIA about Cocos
- New York Times report
- gallipoli landing - anzac
R Trache New Guinea
The view from the Emden
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Irving Berlin
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This work is copyright © Neil Horne 2008, except for the images "Royal Arcade Melbourne" by David Iliff which is distributed under a Creative Commons Licence and "Colombo Town Hall" which is under a GNU free documentation licence.
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