Studio portrait of Cook (S) 24155 Michael Sofoulis, RAN. A baker from Perth in civilian life, ...

Accession Number P10658.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
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 Cook (S) 24155 Michael Sofoulis, RAN. A baker from Perth in civilian life, Sofoulis enlisted as an Assistant Cook on 15 March 1940 and was promoted to Cook in 1941. Cook Sofoulis was killed in action on 27 November 1941, when HMAS Parramatta II was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by the German submarine U-559. He was aged 19.