Accession Number | P06780.001 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Colour - Print hand-coloured black & white |
Maker |
Unknown |
Place made | Australia |
Date made | c 1940 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Hand coloured studio portrait of 24595 Assistant Steward Harold Douglas Wright, of Sydney, NSW. ...
Description
Hand coloured studio portrait of 24595 Assistant Steward Harold Douglas Wright, of Sydney, NSW. Enlisting in the RAN in September 1940, Assistant Steward Wright was one of the 645 crew who were killed during the HMAS Sydney's engagement with the German auxiliary cruiser HSK Kormoran on 19 November 1941.