Informal group portrait of personnel connected with Operation Jaywick. Back row, left to right, ...

Place Asia: Singapore, Singapore Harbour
Accession Number 045420
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass copy negative
Place made Australia: Queensland, Brisbane
Date made 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

Informal group portrait of personnel connected with Operation Jaywick. Back row, left to right, Major (Maj) Herbert Alan Campbell (did not accompany the expedition); B/2575 Leading Stoker James Patrick McDowell, RN; unidentified; unidentified. Third row: Corporal R G Morris, RAMC; S/6543 Able Seaman (AB) Walter Gordon Falls, RAN; B/1506 Acting Leading Seaman Kevin Patrick Cain, RAN; 66175 Maj Ivan Lyon, MBE The Gordon Highlanders (officer commanding Operation Jaywick). Second row; S3428 Leading Telegraphist Horace Stewart Young, RAN; PA2717 AB Mostyn Berryman, RAN; F3383 AB Arthur Walter Jones, RAN. Front row, unidentified; Lieutenant (Lt) Hubert Edward Carse, RANVR; NX19158 Lt Robert Charles Page, AIF. Operation Jaywick was conducted from 1 September 1943 to 19 November 1943 and involved a clandestine attack by a group of six allied operatives against Japanese shipping at Singapore.