Accession Number | P11328.001 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
Maker |
Bay, Collin |
Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney |
Date made | c 1940 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Studio portrait of 23768 Supply Assistant Horace Russell Keats HMAS Canberra. Supply Assistant ...
Description
Studio portrait of 23768 Supply Assistant Horace Russell Keats HMAS Canberra. Supply Assistant Keats, a clerk from Stanmore NSW, enlisted on 29 November 1939 and he was killed in action when HMAS Canberra was attacked and sunk during the Battle of Savo Island on 9 August 1942. He was twenty years old.