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Holsworthy internment camp postcards and photograph, Liverpool, Sydney, 1916

Date
1916
Place
Holsworthy (Liverpool) Camp
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MLMSS 9533
Item number
16AJlRqn
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Digitised
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In copyright. Please acknowledge: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder.
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1. Envelope and card from Table Mountain, Cape Town with enclosed photograph of Boers in Transvaal inscribed “Simonstown, Cape of Good Hope, B.R. Navy Harbour” and 3 pressed leaves inscribed “Compliments of the season, 1916-1917”. Envelope is postmarked Capetown, 20 Nov. 1916, addressed to R.J. Sands, Lieut.-Gen., Commandant Concentration Camp, Liverpool, Sydney.
2. Photograph of German internment camp, not identified, probably Holsworthy
3. Postcard of Simonstown and Bay, Cape Town
4. Postcard of Liverpool concentration camp, written on back in German, from William Henning
5. Envelopes (2) addressed to Major R.S. Sands, German Concentration Camp, Liverpool
6. Postcards from ‘Heinrich’, Liverpool, written in German, 16 Nov. 1916 and envelope inscribed ‘Germany, from Meyer’
7. Cards (2) stating rules for letters to prisoners of war
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