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Serial waves : being smoke and sea spray from ...

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  • Object Type

    serial

  • Name/Title
    Serial waves : being smoke and sea spray from ...
  • Contributor/Publisher
    Daily issues "printed and published by Pte Davy Jones, at the Neptune Press, for Units of 3rd Echelon, 2NZEF."
    Souvenir issue printed by The Times of India Press
  • Place
    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  • Date
    1940
  • Physical Description

    v. ; 33 cm.

  • Serial Holdings
    Current Holdings: v1n1(31 Aug 1940)-n10, v2n1-7(27 Sep 1940), souvenir number

    Special Issues: Special supplement "Our ship" issued September 11th 1940.
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Related Object Notes
    MS 1139 has photocopy of vol. 2, no. 7, 27 September 1940. (3 leaves)
  • Subject Category

    Ship newspapers--New Zealand

    Transports--New Zealand

    New Zealand. Army--Military life--Periodicals

  • Public Access Text

    New Zealand troopship magazine. Housed in NZ troopship magazine box 3. Vol.2 no.s 4-6 title : Serial raves. Sub-title of souvenir issue: being the story of a lot of men and a ship. Daily issues "edited by John Dory"; souvenir issue editor Lieut. E.H. Halstead. Includes nominal roll of No. 12 Transport, 3rd Echelon, 2NZEF. OC Troops Lieut-Col. Shuttleworth; Ship's Master Capt. J.W. Thomas. Produced by troops aboard Transport no. 12, 3d Echelon, 2NZEF.

    The Third Echelon of 2NZEF (356 officers and 6078 other ranks) embarked for the Middle East on 27 August 1940 in "Mauretania" and "Empress of India" at Wellington and in "Orcades" at Lyttelton. The convoy was joined on 31 August by "Aquitania" and HMAS "Canberra" from Sydney, and reached Bombay on 15 September. The troops in "Mauretania" and "Orcades" were trans-shipped at Bombay and continued the voyage to Egypt in "Empress of Japan, "Ormonde" and "Orion", which reached Port Tewfik on 29 September. 14 and 15 Forestry Companies, bound for the United Kingdom, trans-shipped at Bombay from "Empress of Japan" to "Orcades". They disembarked at Gourock on 7 November.

  • Collection Type
    New Zealand Serials
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    16 May 2024
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