Walker, Kenneth James (Able Seaman, b.1919-d.1941)

Places	Africa: North Africa, Libya Europe: Greece Europe: Greece, Athens Mediterranean: Mediterranean Sea Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Palm Island
Accession Number	PR06059
Collection type	Private Record
Record type	Collection
Measurement	Extent: .5 cm; Wallet/s: 1
Object type	Letter
Maker	Walker, Kenneth James
Place made	Australia
Date made	1939-1940
Access	Open
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain
Copying Provisions	Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required.

Description

Collection relating to the Second World War service of 21681 Able Seaman Kenneth James Walker, HMAS Sydney (1935-1941), Royal Australian Navy, Australia and Mediterranean Sea, 1939-1940.

Wallet 1 of 1 – Collection consists of three letters from Able Seaman Walker to his childhood sweetheart, Jean Skidmore. In his letters, Able Seaman Walker writes about being lonely, their planned destinations, undergoing training, serving in the Mediterranean, bombarding the Libyan coast, sinking Italian destroyers, picking up injured survivors, the Battle of Cape Spada in which the HMAS Sydney II sunk the Italian cruiser, Bartolomeo Colleoni, doing lots of convoy work, and visiting Athens.