HMAS Sydney D-48 date and location not available.

 

HMAS Sydney seen in 1935.

 

HMAS Sydney D-48 date and location not available.

 

July 1940: HMAS Sydney D-48 arriving at Alexandria, Egypt.

(Courtesy of Tracey Reed from the collection of Edwin C. J. Reed RN)

 

Memorial to the HMAS Sydney, it stands on a hill overlooking Geraldton and the Indian Ocean in Western Australia in the dome there is one Seagull for every man lost in the tragedy, there is also a larger than life bronze lady looking eternally out to sea. It is said that the people who's job it was to design the memorial were on the site lost for inspiration, when a large flock of Seagulls flew overhead, this was the inspiration for the dome of gulls. There is, on the front of the memorial, walls of marble with the names of the men lost inscribed.

(Photo cpurtesy of Kylie Stottelaar
text courtesy of Anne Owen)
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