Dark Secrets Images
A key objective of Dark Secrets was to bring the key characters in this story to life. The best way to do that was to find images of them that could be used in the book. This proved difficult because events in the story occurred nearly 80 years ago and all of the key characters are deceased.
Official sources
The Australian War Memorial images collection provided the best source of photographs of politicians, bureaucrats, officers, ratings and life on board ship.
The High Court of Australia was generous in allowing me to use images of the four judges that sat on the habeas corpus case in May 1942.
The Office of Parliamentary Council was very helpful with photographs of Sir George Knowles.
The National Library of Australia and its Trove collection provided a good source of images of politicians, advisers, lawyers and places and events in this story.
State Libraries and museums also provided additional photographs about places and key events in the story.
The State Records and Archives Office of NSW provided a photograph of Goulburn Gaol.
The National Archives of Australia contained photographs taken by the Commonwealth Investigation Bureau of two women thought to be Sonita Francis, a close friend of Ron Gordon, and Christina Byrnes, Ted Elias’s mother.
Family collections
The descendants and friends of the key characters provided an unexpected wealth of material.
Carol Woods, the niece of Jack Riley, provided family photographs that have never been published before including RAN images of Jack’s burial at sea.
Giles Yates, a friend of Ron Gordon, provided family photographs of Ron and his brother, Frank.
Unfortunately, I could not locate any family or friends of Ted Elias, so the only image we have of him was provided by Giles Yates capturing Ted’s marriage in 1950.
Jeremy Rapke provided photographs of his father, Trevor Rapke, as a Paymaster Lieutenant in the RAN.
Lynn Rainbow provided photographs of her father, Judge Alfred Rainbow, in judicial attire.
Wendie-Sue, the adopted daughter of Malcolm Stening, and her husband, Rod Lyons, provided a photograph of the surgeon in his officer’s uniform.
Stock images
Where I could not source images of key characters from official sources or family and friends, I turned to stock images.
Many of these were out of copyright on Wikipedia Commons and there were no rights attached to them. Appropriate citations have been made in each case.
Other images were found through searches on commercial photographic archives. Every effort was used to find the correct image for each person.
In each case, appropriate fees were paid to access these photographs with usage rights for this book.
In some cases, finding the right image of the each person proved challenging because, in two cases, father and son shared the same or very similar names.
Mervyn Finlay
I sourced a contemporary stock image of Mervyn David Finlay, the Sydney criminal lawyer who represented Rob Gordon and Ted Elias in the Maxwell Inquiry.
Mervyn Finlay had a son with the identical name, so I cross-checked to ensure the image I had was of Mervyn Finlay senior and not Mervyn Finlay junior.
As the image of Mervyn Finlay and William McKell was dated 1926, and Mervyn Finlay junior was only born in 1925, I am confident it is the right image.
Justice Maxwell
I looked for a contemporary stock image of Justice Maxwell who conducted the judicial inquiry into the Riley case in 1944.
Justice Allan Victor Maxwell had a son with a very similar name, Alan Victor Maxwell, who was born in 1922.
Both Justice Allan Victor Maxwell and his son, Justice Alan Victor Maxwell, had distinguished legal careers.
Unfortunately, because of the similarity of names and titles, commercial stock image libraries sometimes confused the two men.
To avoid any doubt as to the correct image for Justice Allan Victor Maxwell I sourced a stock image of father and son.
That image is attached to this article.
Other images
The Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn provided a photograph of Dr Ernest Burgmann, the ‘Bushman Bishop’.
A photographer, Emman Bonnici, also approved the use of one of his images of Catholic Cardinal Norman Gilroy.
Sydney Morning Herald, 3 April 1974, Fairfax Media Archives: 1079476460
Mr Justice Allan Victor Maxwell, SNR (r) and Mr Justice Alan Victor Maxwell, JNR, (l) who has just been admitted to the bench of the NSW Supreme Court, at Judge Maxwell senior’s home in Edgecliff.