Studio portrait of 21030 Shipwright 3rd Class Robert Beauchamp Hopcraft, RAN, of Sydney, NSW. ...

Accession Number P04840.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print hand coloured black & white
Maker Unknown
Date made c1940
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 21030 Shipwright 3rd Class Robert Beauchamp Hopcraft, RAN, of Sydney, NSW. Hopcraft enlisted on 2 March 1936 and served aboard the HMAS Sydney (II). He was killed in action, aged 27 years, when the HMAS Sydney was sunk in the Indian Ocean on 20 November 1941 while battling with the German Raider HSK Kormoran.