S.A. men aboard the Sydney: Personal details about members of crew |
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| Title : | S.A. men aboard the Sydney: Personal details about members of crew |
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| Source : | Advertiser, 1 December 1941, p. 7; p. 8, col. d | |||
| Date of creation : | 1941 | |||
| Format : | Newspaper | |||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | |||
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| Description : |
Article about the loss of the HMAS Sydney. It includes biographical details and/or photographs of the following men: Woodsford, Alfred Charles; Laffer, Peter Morton; King, Allen James; Hill, Robert Henry; Murdoch, Raymond Charles; Rudall, Peter S.; Peterson, James Edward; Wilson, Jack Stanley; Heritage, Roy George; Brooks, Donald Leslie; Tabor, Frederick Arthur; Coppin, George William; Hogan, Michael Henry; Ewens, Robert Underdown; Doyle, Edward Francis; McKechnie, Glen Morton; Mayo, Eric E.; Schmidt, Alan Hartley; Schulz, Raymond Arthur; Krieg, Douglas Archibald; Burrowes, Douglas James; Wilson, Roderick Richard; Colbey, Robert Sabey; Martin, James Hearle; Stripe, Alexander E.; Kitchin, Clayton Peter; Richards, H.N.; Windham, Russell Bertram; Simpson, Reg A.; Ingham, John W.; Medlen, Lindsay James; Shiers, Arthur Ernest; Barrey, Raymond Barker; Standish, George Frederick; Vogt, Ronald Matthew; Cork, William James Morris; Honor, Charles Leslie; Caudle, Douglas William; Walsh, Gordon Stuart; Norman, Charles George James; Norman, Frederick William; Kleinig, Arthur Albert; Gwynne, David Andrew. The HMAS Sydney (II) was lost off the coast of Western Australia on 19 November 1941 after an engagement with the German raider Kormoran. All 645 lives on board Sydney were lost. The wreck of the Sydney was only discovered in early 2008. |
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| Coverage year : | 1941 |
| Period : | 1939-1945 |
| Further reading : | Australia. Parliament. Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. Report on the loss of HMAS Sydney, [Canberra] : The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1999 Craill, Barbara. The big silence : a true story of a sailor, his ship and his family, Hackham, S. Aust. : B. Craill, 1997 Frame, T. R. HMAS Sydney : loss and controversy, Sydney : Hodder Headline, 1998 Olson, Wesley. Bitter victory : the death of H.M.A.S. Sydney, Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 2000 |
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