Accession Number | P09012.001 |
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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 This item is in the Public Domain |
Studio portrait of 23289 Stoker (Sto) Francis Bernard Keenan, HMAS Sydney. An engineer from ...
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.