P06570.001 Accession Number: P06570.001

Description

Mounted portrait of HMAS Sydney II berthing in Sydney Harbour, with an imposed image of crew member S5117 Able Seaman (AB) Leonard Denis York, of Arncliffe, NSW. AB York enlisted on 8 April 1935 and was killed in action on 20 November 1941, aged 24, when the Sydney was sunk in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia by the German Auxiliary Cruiser HSK Kormoran.

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Accession Number
P06570.001
Photographer
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Date Made
c 1941
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor C Odger
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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