Accession Number | P06908.001 |
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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
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Studio portrait of S4746 Stoker (STO) William Roy Chapman, HMAS Penguin, of Sydney, NSW. STO ...
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.