Studio portrait of S4746 Stoker (STO) William Roy Chapman, HMAS Penguin, of Sydney, NSW. STO ...

Accession Number P06908.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Paramount Studio
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made c October 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 S4746 Stoker (STO) William Roy Chapman, HMAS Penguin, of Sydney, NSW. STO Chapman was killed in action on 20 November 1941, aged 20 , when the ship on which he was serving, HMAS Sydney II, was sunk in the Indian Ocean by the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran.