Portrait of brothers NX57176 Frederick Lewis Fortier (left) and QX10058 Alan David Fortier ...

Accession Number P06530.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made c 1940 -1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait of brothers NX57176 Frederick Lewis Fortier (left) and QX10058 Alan David Fortier (right), both 2/12 Field Ambulance and both of Cronulla, NSW. Frederick Fortier enlisted at Paddington, NSW, on 11 July 1940 and Alan Fortier enlisted at Toowoomba, Qld, on 15 June 1940. The brothers served on the hospital ship Centaur and were both killed on 14 May 1943 when Centaur was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese submarine I-177.