Outdoor portrait of S/4285 Able Seaman (AB) John Albert Curtis Allison, HMAS Sydney II, of ...

Accession Number P07665.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Date made c 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

Outdoor portrait of S/4285 Able Seaman (AB) John Albert Curtis Allison, HMAS Sydney II, of Granville, NSW. AB Allison enlisted on 9 July 1940 and he was killed in action on 20 November 1941, aged 19, when HMAS Sydney was sunk off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of all hands, by the German raider Kormoran.