Wikipedia

File:Australian sign at Forty Second Street on Crete 1941 (AWM P03731 001).jpg

Original file (415 × 654 pixels, file size: 208 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: AWM description: The Forty-Second Street sign, naming a lane in Crete where a small Allied force repelled advancing Germans. On 27 May 1941, 42nd Street was the site of a battle between the German 141st Mountain Regiment and two companies of the 2/7 Battalion, joined by New Zealanders of the 28th (Maori) Battalion, stopping the Germans for the rest of the day. The name '42nd Street', a humorous appellation inspired by the musical of the same name, was given by a small group of sappers from the 42nd Field Company, Royal Engineers who had bivouacked beside the dirt lane after being sent to garrison Crete late in 1940. The name was recorded on British maps and passed into common use. With German advances into Crete, allied troops joined together, withdrawing towards Canea and by 27th May occupied a line including 42nd Street, from Suda Bay to the Malaxa escarpment. This was the rearguard of the Commonwealth force retreating southward to Sfakia, site of evacuations.
Date c. 26 May 1941
Source
This image is available from the Collection Database of the Australian War Memorial under the ID Number:
P03731.001
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.

العربيَّة | български | English | español | français | हिन्दी | македонски | português | +/−

Author Unknown authorUnknown author
Permission
(Reusing this file)

"Copyright expired - public domain" [1]

Public domain
This image or other work is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. According to the Australian Copyright Council (ACC), ACC Information Sheet G023v19 (Duration of copyright) (January 2019).1
Type of materialCopyright has expired if …
 A Photographs or other works published anonymously, under a pseudonym or the creator is unknown: taken or published prior to 1 January 1955
BPhotographs (except A): taken prior to 1 January 1955
CArtistic works (except A & B): the creator died before 1 January 1955
DPublished editions2 (except A & B): first published more than 25 years ago (prior to 1 January 1999)
ECommonwealth, State or Territory owned3 photographs and engravings: taken or published more than 50 years ago (prior to 1 January 1974)
1 Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Bill 2017 (Australian Government)
2 means the typographical arrangement and layout of a published work. eg. newsprint.
3 owned means where a government is the copyright owner as well as would have owned copyright but reached some other agreement with the creator.
When using this template, please provide information of where the image was first published and who created it.
You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
العربية ∙ català ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ 日本語 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ русский ∙ slovenščina ∙ Tok Pisin ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−
Australia
Australia
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets three requirements:

  1. it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days),
  2. it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established copyright relations with the United States,
  3. it was in the public domain in its home country (Australia) on the URAA date (1 January 1996).
For background information, see the explanations on Non-U.S. copyrights.
Note: This tag should not be used for sound recordings.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

media type

image/jpeg

checksum

10bc74ec9e5feb1a6e66551b0ac2de2bd1c03602

determination method or standard: SHA-1

data size

212,695 byte

height

654 pixel

width

415 pixel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current06:47, 25 January 2014Thumbnail for version as of 06:47, 25 January 2014415 × 654 (208 KB)Anotherclown== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description = {{en|1=The Forty-Second Street sign, naming a lane in Crete where a small Allied force repelled advancing Germans. On 27 May 1941, 42nd Street was the site of a battle between the German 141st Moun...

The following page uses this file:

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Retrieved from "https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/File:Australian_sign_at_Forty_Second_Street_on_Crete_1941_(AWM_P03731_001).jpg"