Colour studio portrait of Engineering Lieutenant (Lt) Reginald Bernard Alkin, Royal Australian ...

Accession Number P06933.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made c 1930s
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Colour studio portrait of Engineering Lieutenant (Lt) Reginald Bernard Alkin, Royal Australian Naval Reserve (RANR). Originally from Liverpool, England and a Chief Engineer with the State Shipping Company in Australia, Lt Alkin enlisted on 23 July 1940 and served on the patrol craft HMAS Kybra and at the naval base HMAS Cerberus. He died on 18 October 1941, aged 52.