Studio portrait of Chief Petty Officer (CPO) Stores Louis Nicholas Sampson, HMAS Sydney, RAN. CPO ...

Accession Number P06348.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Paramount Photo
Place made British Mandate of Palestine: Palestine, Jerusalem
Date made c 1940
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 Chief Petty Officer (CPO) Stores Louis Nicholas Sampson, HMAS Sydney, RAN. CPO Sampson, of Forbes, NSW, enlised with RAN in May 1922. He was lost in action when the Sydney was sunk on 20 November 1941 during a battle with the German cruiser Kormoran off Carnarvon, WA, aged 34 years. All 645 personnel on board HMAS Sydney were lost.