Studio portrait of S/3834 Able Seaman (AB) John Barron Walker of Bondi, NSW. AB Walker enlisted ...

Accession Number P07266.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print hand-coloured black & white
Maker Riley, Sidney
Date made 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 S/3834 Able Seaman (AB) John Barron Walker of Bondi, NSW. AB Walker enlisted on 4 January 1940, and served on the SS Slamat . He died, aged 33, on 27 April 1941 when the Slamat was sunk during a German air attack in the Aegean Sea during the evacuation of Crete.

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