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AU PMB MS 967
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- 2 May - 16 December 1914 (Creation)
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1 reel; 35mm microfilm.
Digital PDF.
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Donaldson was one of about 40 British employees of the British-owned Pacific Phosphate Company on Nauru when World War I broke out. Nauru was then a German colony. On 6 September 1914, the Germans deported the British employees to Ocean Island, part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate. On 3 November 1914, an Australian force under Colonel W. Holmes, arrived at Ocean Island in the company's ship Messina, reembarked the British employees and returned them to Nauru, which was placed under Australian military control.
The diary gives an account of these events and those preceding and following them.
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Available for reference
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(1991) Unknown
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Access this title at PMB Member Libraries or by contacting the Bureau directly: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/accessing.php
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ms967
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Archivist's note
Digitised in October 2015.
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Digital_reference_image.pdf
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application/pdf