Accession Number | AWM2018.1066.1 |
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Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Framed: 54 x 49.2 cm; Unframed: 35.5 cm x 30.3 cm |
Object type | Painting |
Physical description | oil on board |
Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney |
Date made | c.1946 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Unlicensed copyright |
Able Seaman Wallace Montrose Ross
Description
Posthumous portrait of 22982 Able Seaman Wallace Montrose Ross, Royal Australian Navy, who was killed in action when the HMAS Canberra (I) was sunk off the coast off Savo Island in the Solomon Islands on 9th August 1942.