Posted 02/23/2012 4:40 pm
what a wonderful piece of tangible history.
That would attract major interest in Australia:
the destruction of the Emden ("beached and done for") is a major event in Australian Naval history.
But it also forms part of our military folklore, because when the Sydney took on the Emden, she was escorting a convoy of troopships. Many soldiers saw and/or heard the battle, and recorded it in their letters and diaries. They went on to invade the Ottoman Empire on 25 April 1925, which we call ANZAC Day, so the Emden story has become integral to the ANZAC legend.
That would attract major interest in Australia:
the destruction of the Emden ("beached and done for") is a major event in Australian Naval history.
But it also forms part of our military folklore, because when the Sydney took on the Emden, she was escorting a convoy of troopships. Many soldiers saw and/or heard the battle, and recorded it in their letters and diaries. They went on to invade the Ottoman Empire on 25 April 1925, which we call ANZAC Day, so the Emden story has become integral to the ANZAC legend.
