Hand coloured portrait of 20499 Stoker Eric Peter Beattie, HMAS Sydney. An accountant of ...

Accession Number P05479.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print hand coloured black & white
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1935
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Hand coloured portrait of 20499 Stoker Eric Peter Beattie, HMAS Sydney. An accountant of Fremantle, WA, he enlisted on 15 October 1934. He was killed in action on 20 November 1941 when HMAS Sydney was lost with all hands on 19 November 1941 after its engagement with the Kormoran in the Indian Ocean.

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