Cruiser (82 page)

Able Seaman George Morriss, who died at the infamous Sandakan POW camp in Borneo, 1945.
(AWM
P02149.001)

Lieutenant David McWilliam, the Observer in
Perth
's Walrus aircraft, died in the Sunda Strait.
(AWM
P07953.001)

Petty Officer Stoker Jack Turnbull (picture taken as an ordinary seaman in 1934). He and his brothers Bill and Ken drowned when they were torpedoed on the way to Japan.
(AWM
P07583.001)

Lieutenant William ‘Willie' Gay, the last man to see Hec Waller alive. This picture
was
taken at the Zentsuji POW camp in Japan.
(AWM
P04017.068)

Lieutenant John Harper RN,
Perth'
s Navigating Officer, who survived the war.
(AWM
P04017.065)

Lieutenant-Commander Philipp ‘Polo' Owen, a close friend of Hec Waller, photographed as a POW in Japan.
(AWM
P04017.058)

Lieutenant Sam Stening, also photographed at Zentsuji.
Perth'
s sole surviving doctor, he saved countless POW lives.
(AWM P04017.061)

The
Autolycus
leaves Sydney. The fleet flagship HMAS
Australia
is in the background.
(B
RUCE
C
ONSTABLE
)

Crossing the line on the
Autolycus,
1939.
(N
AVAL
H
ISTORICAL
S
OCIETY OF
A
USTRALIA
)

About to become an Australian man o'war. Portsmouth, 1939.
(N
AVAL
H
ISTORICAL
S
OCIETY OF
A
USTRALIA
)

Perth
cruise postcard, 1939.
(B
ASIL
H
AYLER
)

Perth
fires a 21-gun salute as she enters New York harbour, August 1939.
(N
AVAL
H
ISTORICAL
S
OCIETY OF
A
USTRALIA
)

HMAS
Perth
battles a hurricane off Bermuda, October 1939.
(D
RAWING BY
R
AY
P
ARKIN
)