Image:Joachim Pease poster.jpg

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Description

United States Navy poster featuring Medal of Honor recipient Seaman Joachim Pease. Pease received the Medal of Honor for his conduct while loader of the No. 2 Gun on USS Kearsarge as she battled CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France on 19 June 1864.

Source

Naval Historical Center Online Library, Photo #: NH 103763

Date

photographed 1970

Author


Believe the author of this may have been a Frearson, or Frearson Brothers of Norseman, Dundas, Western Australia who had the first newspaper there. Also had newspaper in King Street, Adelaide where other family operated doing maps. Some brothers moved to Norseman 1890's and settled there some 18 years. Septimus Frearson was a Councillor of the Shire of Dundas at the time of proposed recession with newspaper articles related to visit by Premier John Forrest.

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(Reusing this image)

Public domain


Public domain This image is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

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