BROTHER OF THE FORMER TALLEST MAN IN THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY, A YOUNG MAN FROM WEST PERTH HAS ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Perth
Accession Number 011900
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Australia: Western Australia, Perth
Date made 30 March 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

BROTHER OF THE FORMER TALLEST MAN IN THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY, A YOUNG MAN FROM WEST PERTH HAS JUST JOINED UP, TAKING THE TITLE THAT HIS YOUNGER BROTHER HELD AT THE TIME HE VANISHED WITH THE ILL-FATED HMAS SYDNEY. EDDIE DE GRACIE IS 6'6 1/2", A CHEERY YOUNG GIANT JUST AN INCH SHORTER THAN HIS BROTHER JACK.