Studio portrait of 23051Stoker Henry Alfred Geoffrey Cranwwell, HMAS Sydney II, of Burnie, ...

Accession Number P09175.007
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Date made 1940-1941
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 23051Stoker Henry Alfred Geoffrey Cranwwell, HMAS Sydney II, of Burnie, Tasmania. Stoker Cranwell enlisted in the RAN on 5 April 1939. He was killed in action, aged 21, when HMAS Sydney was sunk in the Indian Ocean by the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran on 20 November 1941.