Studio portrait of 23768 Supply Assistant Horace Russell Keats HMAS Canberra. Supply Assistant ...

Accession Number P11328.001
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

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.