Studio portrait of 23289 Stoker (Sto) Francis Bernard Keenan, HMAS Sydney. An engineer from ...

Accession Number P09012.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Cruden, James Charles
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1939-1941
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 23289 Stoker (Sto) Francis Bernard Keenan, HMAS Sydney. An engineer from Carlisle, WA, Sto Keenan enlisted in the RAN on 9 June 1939. He was was killed in action, aged 25, when HMAS Sydney II was sunk in the Indian Ocean by the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran on 20 November 1941.