Inventarnummer
4201.317.1
Titel
Emigrant Soldiers' Gazette and Cape Born Chronicle
Hersteller
Beschreibung
There are 17 Gazettes which have all been put together in the book. Beforehand, the gazettes were in manuscript format. The gazettes were read to the Thames City ship every Saturday night - the day of publication - by the Commanding Officer, Captain H. R. Luard, R.E. The first gazette was from November 6th 1858 and the 17th was from April 2nd 1859. The gazettes contain jokes, conundrums, advertisements, any records of births and deaths, correspondence and the main body of the gazette. Each gazette (except for the first one) contains the answers to the previous week's conundrums. In one correspndence letter from the 17th gazette, a man offers up his opinion of why the women on the ship keep bickering and fighting. He concluded that, due to the length at which the women had been on the ship with nothing much to do, out of almost boredom, they have come to resent and fight each other, and, he says, a month away from the ship, they will once again "assume the epithet of "Doves"". Altogether, the gazettes report three deaths and eight births onboard the ship.
The book contains photographs, or reproduced photographs, of Colonel R. C. Moody, Captain J. M. Grant and New Westminster. There is a large map of the world in green and pink which folds out from the book. And a list of non-commissioned officers and men. There is also a blue peice of paper slipped into the book which is dated May 1935 and says, 'Presented by M J. D. Graham Ex. Sergt. R.E. of Cobble Hill British Columbia Canada'.
Datum
1858-11-06 - 1935
Entstehungszeitraum
World War One, 1914-1918
Material
Format