Studio portrait of Midshipman Thomas Garton Brown, RAN. Midshipman Brown enlisted in the RAN on ...

Accession Number P09071.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1938
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 Midshipman Thomas Garton Brown, RAN. Midshipman Brown enlisted in the RAN on 30 January 1934. Serving as a Lieutenant on HMAS Sydney II, Brown was was killed in action, aged 21, when the ship was sunk in the Indian Ocean by the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran on 20 November 1941.

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