Memorial card with studio portrait of 3237 Able Seaman (AB) Clifford Frank Owens, RAN. AB Owens ...

Accession Number P10628.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Unknown
Date made 1913-1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Memorial card with studio portrait of 3237 Able Seaman (AB) Clifford Frank Owens, RAN. AB Owens of Mailors Flat, Victoria, enlisted in July 1913, aged 18. He trained at HMAS Cerberus before serving firstly on the light cruiser HMAS Protector, then on the battle cruiser HMAS Australia. He died as result of an accident on 12 November 1916, while HMAS Australia was at Rosyth Naval Dockyard in the Firth of Forth, Scotland.