| Accession Number | H18633 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
| Maker |
The Sydney Morning Herald |
| Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney |
| Date made | 1939 |
| Conflict |
Period 1930-1939 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
A group of eleven Royal Australian Navy men who were serving in the cruiser HMAS Sydney when it ...
Description
A group of eleven Royal Australian Navy men who were serving in the cruiser HMAS Sydney when it destroyed the German Navy cruiser Emden at Cocos Keeling on 9 November 1914. This photograph shows them together 25 years later at Garden Island serving in HMAS Penguin. The men are, with their 1914 rank in brackets, from left to right in the back row: 2746 Chief Petty Officer George Hoffman (cook), Shipwright Lieutenant Commander William John Thomas White (shipwright), Mr H P Walke commissioned MAA (signalman), 3296 Jack Levy, Ward Master (sick berth rating) and Petty Officer G. Davis (torpedo gunner's mate). In the front row, from left to right: 586 Leading Seaman Reginald Francis Grimley (boy in a gun crew), Lieutenant T Turnbull (engine room artificer), Paymaster Commander Eric Kingsford-Smith (Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant), Commander Frederick Langton Cavaye (Lieutenant), Surgeon Captain Leonard Darby (Surgeon Lieutenant), Signal Lieutenant J A Coleman (Chief Yeoman of Signals).