The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of 49 year old 8522 Able Seaman (AB) Leonard Richards, who has been 37 years in the navy, was one of the survivors from the sinking corvette HMAS Wallaroo, following a collision with a merchant US Liberty Ship, Henry Gilbert Costin on 11 June 1943, 96 kilometres off the coast of Fremantle, Western Australia. When the collision occurred he had just come off watch at midnight, and was going into the mess.
Informal portrait of 20126 Petty officer Victor Doyle, coxwain, from Rockdale, NSW who did excellent work in getting men away from the sinking corvette HMAS Wallaroo, following a collision with a merc
Informal portrait of S4905 Able Seaman Kevin John Crowther RAN from Haberfield, NSW and 25995 Ordinary Signalman Hugh Patterson Lowe RAN from Melbourne, Victoria who were on the bridge of the corvette
Group portrait of the Victorian RAN survivors of the sinking of the corvette HMAS Wallaroo off the Australian coast, sixty miles (96 kilomentres) west of Fremantle, Western Australia, on the night of
Group portrait of interstate members of the RAN, survivors of the HMAS Wallaroo which was sunk off the Australian coast, sixty miles (96 kilometres) west of Fremantle, Western Australia. On the night
Informal portrait of two RAN Petty Officers, H Rodject and S368 Albert Hall Rowland from Woolahra, NSW who got out emergency torches when HMAS Wallaroo, Australian built corvette collided with a merch
COLLISION AT SEA. SURVIVORS FROM H.M.A.S. WALLAROO, AN AUSTRALIAN BUILT CORVETTE WHICH SANK OFF THE AUSTRALIAN COAST FOLLOWING A COLLISION WITH US LIBERTY SHIP HENRY GILBERT COSTIN.
