Otto Wortmann internment camp papers, 12 August 1914-October 1917

Item

Title
Otto Wortmann internment camp papers, 12 August 1914-October 1917
Subject
World War, 1914-1918--Australia
Germany--Colonies
German language--Writing
Internment camps
Category
3. World War I
Author
Wortmann, Otto
Keywords
Rabaul
Current holder
State Library of New South Wales
Date
August 12, 1914
Link
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9yM66439
Series number
MLMSS 261/Box 6/Item 49
Item number
9yM66439
Access rights
Digitised
Rights 
Copyright status: In copyright
Country of origin
Papua New Guinea
Place
Rabaul
Language 
German
Description from source
Item 49, 1 volume
Physical format
Typescripts
Abstract 
Wortmann describes the taking of the German barracks in Herbertshöhe by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, 11 Sept. 1914, and events during and after the capitulation of the colony on 21 Sept., including the internment of all the German residents of Rabaul and Herbertshöhe and his deportation with 22 other Germans to Australia on the Morinda, 11-24 Aug. 1915
Related resources 
http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2011/D11980/a4044.pdf
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1Jkm4moY
https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/R3NQ9V82/