Description
Studio portrait of S/4103 Ordinary Seaman (Ord Sea) Harold Glasby, of Glebe Point, NSW, wearing an HMAS Moresby tally band on his cap. Ord Sea Glasby enlisted on 11 March 1940. He was promoted to able seaman while serving on HMAS Sydney II, and on 20 November 1941 was killed in action, aged 18, when the Sydney was sunk in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia by the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran.
Details
Accession Number
P07108.001
Photographer
Sidney Riley
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Colour - Print hand-coloured black & white
Credit Line
Donor G Burbridge
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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