A souvenir of the Great World War and the glorious part played by Australia and New Zealand.

[United Kingdom? : s.n., c.1915]. Cotton handkerchief, 450 x 600 mm, recto lithograph printed in colour, with patriotic illustrations featuring a large central cartouche captioned ‘The Landing of our Gallant Sons of Empire on the Gallipoli Peninsula’, smaller uncaptioned cartouches at each corner depicting ships of the Royal Australian Navy (including HMAS Sydney), and at lower centre a depiction of SMS Emden after its engagement with the Sydney, captioned ‘”The Scrap Heap”. A view of the “Emden” after the fight with the “Sydney” off the Cocos Keeling Islands’; old folds, a few insignificant marks at the margins, but an extremely well preserved example.

This scarce souvenir handkerchief is likely to have been printed in the second half of 1915, probably in the United Kingdom.

Trove locates other examples in the ANMM, SLWA, NLA and SLNSW.