page_title: Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Australian Machine Gun Section training, Palm Island, from album of Photographs Used in the Book "How Australia Took German New Guinea&#160;: An Illustrated Record of the Australian Naval &amp; Military Expeditionary Force", 1914, by F. S. Burnell PXA 2165
context_page_description: The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force was a small volunteer force of approximately 2,000 men, raised in Australia shortly after the outbreak of World War I to seize and destroy German wireless stations in German New Guinea in the south-west Pacific. The German wireless installations were ordered to be destroyed because they were used by Vizeadmiral Maximilian von Spee's East Asia Squadron of the Imperial German Navy, which threatened merchant shipping in the region. Following the capture of German possessions in the region, the AN&MEF provided occupation forces for the duration of the war. New Zealand provided a similar force for the occupation of German Samoa.
caption: Australian Machine Gun Section training, Palm Island, F. S. Burnell State Library of New South Wales, PXA 2165
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