Accession Number | P05468.006 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | |
Maker |
Gwyer Gibbs |
Place made | United Kingdom: England |
Date made | 1953 |
Conflict |
Period 1950-1959 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Group portrait of the Australian Naval Coronation Contingent gathered at Pirbright, England. ...
Description
Group portrait of the Australian Naval Coronation Contingent gathered at Pirbright, England. Lieutenant Hugh Randall Syme, GC, GM and Bar, Royal Australian Navy (formerly of the Royal Australian Navy Volunteer Reserve), is seated in the front row sixth from right. He rapidly developed a reputation for bravery, especially in delousing the unfamiliar German magnetic mines. He was awarded the George Cross and the George Medal and Bar for a string of successful mine recoveries between 1940 and 1942. In January 1943 he returned to Australia and was appointed as the Commanding Officer of a bomb disposal section at HMAS Cerberus. He left the Navy in 1944, returning to the family business of running The Age newspaper in Melbourne.
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