Informal portrait of three men in hammocks in C Block Dormitory at Flinders Naval Depot. The men ...

Accession Number P05485.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Place made Australia: Victoria, Mornington Peninsula, Westernport, Flinders Naval Depot
Date made c 1940
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Informal portrait of three men in hammocks in C Block Dormitory at Flinders Naval Depot. The men are, from left to right: 23854 Ordinary Telegraphist Michael Henry Hogan, of Millicent, SA, who was killed in action aboard HMAS Sydney in 1941; 23889 Ordinary Telegraphist Russell Bertram Windham, of Bute, SA, who was also killed aboard HMAS Sydney in 1941; and 23853 Ordinary Telegraphist William Leonard Orchard, of Unley, SA.