Wedding portrait of 5925 Stoker Petty Officer (SPO) Robert Naismith, HMAS Sydney, and his bride ...

Accession Number P09053.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1923
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Wedding portrait of 5925 Stoker Petty Officer (SPO) Robert Naismith, HMAS Sydney, and his bride Eileen Gallagher. SPO Naismith enlisted in the RAN on 2 January 1917 as a stoker, and served on many ships and shore bases in his 25 year career, achieving the rating of Mechanician. He was killed in action on 1 March 1942, aged 43, when the ship on which he was serving, HMAS Perth, was sunk by Japanese destroyers in the Sunda Strait.