Refuge Bay. Informal portrait of Sub Lieutenant Bertram Thomas Overell, member of 'Z' Special ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales
Accession Number P01806.005
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Hawkesbury River
Date made 17 January 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Refuge Bay. Informal portrait of Sub Lieutenant Bertram Thomas Overell, member of 'Z' Special Unit, Australian Services Reconnaissance Department, outside a tent at a training camp. He was preparing for Operation `Jaywick' in which operatives carried out a successful raid in MV Krait on Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour. (Formerly 3DRL 6204, original held in AWM Archive Store)