Seated on the barrel of a gun is a group of Eastern Command Fixed Defences staff engaged in the ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Cape Banks
Accession Number 129985
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker McQuillan, Ernest Mervyn
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Cape Banks
Date made 9 May 1946
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Seated on the barrel of a gun is a group of Eastern Command Fixed Defences staff engaged in the maintaining of two 9.2 inch coastal artillery guns stationed at Cape Banks, Botany Bay. Members are from left to right: NX179073 Gunner (Gnr) Frank Famulara; NX176708 Lance Bombadier Joseph Robert Sexton; NX107530 Gnr Walter Alfred Creamer; NX145032 Gnr Raymond Joseph Saul; NX178103 Gnr Russell Norman Kirby.