Studio portrait of 14705 Petty Officer Telegraphist (PO Tel) Roderic Bell Abernethy, HMAS Sydney ...

Accession Number P09175.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 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 14705 Petty Officer Telegraphist (PO Tel) Roderic Bell Abernethy, HMAS Sydney II, of Wellington, NSW. PO Tel Abernethy enlisted in the RAN on 7 August 1924. He was killed in action, aged 31, when HMAS Sydney II was sunk in the Indian Ocean by the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran on 20 November 1941.