Manila folder labelled 'Allier – Cooktown 1879–1907'

Containers:

Box 2 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 35

Content Summary:

The folder contains copies of research correspondence, newspaper reports, court records and other documents associated with the sojourn of the French naval dispatch-transport Allier (1650 tons) in Cooktown in February 1879. She left France in November 1878 bound for New Caledonia with a crew of 102 men and 228 soldiers. En route there were twenty-one deaths due to a fever and later a further thirteen - that of: Augustin Nicot, Jean-Marie Foucault, Jean-Adolphe Bernard, Emmanuel-Jean Allat, Jean-Marie Pouly, Jules Boulanger, Valentin Maze, Louis-René Desmos, Victor Letourneau, Jean-Marie Urban, Louis Drouillet, Louis-Marie Le Floch and Jean-Marie Duret. These and other events, the disturbance of French graves in 1905, are referred to by Edward Duyker in his article 'France's Military Dead in Australia: An Historical Survey', The French Australian Review, no. 56, Australian Winter 2014, pp. 65– 83

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

Subjects:

Exploration
History

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