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Title
Alec Donaldson diaries, 6 August 1917-26 December 1917 and 6 August 1917-24 December 1918, with biographical note
Creator
A. (Alexander) Donaldson
Call number
MLDOC 2125
Level of description
fonds
Date

6 August 1917-24 December 1918
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
864200
Issue Copy
Digitised : 2014
Physical Description
0.03 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript, typescript
Scope and Content
Capt. Donaldson's account of events in two diaries, 6 August-26 December 1917, written in a 1914 diary, and from 6 August 1917-24 December 1918, while a prisoner of war on board S.M.S. Wolf, after capture and sinking of his ship, S.S. Matunga, and later in Germany; with typescript biographical note.
General note

Microfilm copy available at CY 4871, frames 307-387
State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
The amazing cruise of the German raider 'Wolf' : from the log of Captain Donaldson, s.s. 'Matunga', Sydney : New Century Press, [1920?] - http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1743577
Fifty years too soon / by A. Donaldson, Melbourne : Whitcombe & Tombs, 1948 - http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2985882
Name
Wolf (Ship)
Matunga (ship)
Subject
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
World War, 1914-1918--Australia.
Prisoners of war--Germany.
Merchant mariners--New South Wales.
Merchant mariners--Great Britain.

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