Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Oz and USA

1863 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (d. 1914). His assassination by Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914 precipitated the Austrian declaration of war against Serbia, which triggered World War I.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Australia and USA
The Archduke arrived in Sydney on May 17, 1893 on board the Austrian warship SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth on a world tour when he was 29. Within 24 hours of his arrival he left Sydney by train for Nyngan, a frontier town in the west of New South Wales, accompanied by Francis Bathurst Suttor, Member for Bathurst and Minister for Public Instruction in the Government of Sir George Dibbs, and Herr Alfred Pelldram, the German Consul-General. He spent most of his time in Australia hunting in the Nyngan and Narromine districts, but also travelled to Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands of NSW ...

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