Portrait of 22213 Sick Berth Attendant (SBA) John Robert Payne who enlisted in the RAN on 14 June ...

Accession Number P06553.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1938-1941
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 22213 Sick Berth Attendant (SBA) John Robert Payne who enlisted in the RAN on 14 June 1938. SBA Payne was killed in action, aged 23, when HMAS Sydney II was sunk in the Indian Ocean by the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran on 20 November 1941.

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