Sydney Stuart Gore

  General Notes:

Stuart Gore was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1905 and came to Australia with his

parents at the age of three. He began his career as a photographer at the age of 19. He was

one of Western Autralia's first aerial photographers and was a foundation member of the

Professional Photographers Association of Western Australia. He took aerial photographs

for the Royal Australian Air Force and was an official war photographer during World War II.

He was a regular contributor to the feature pages of the West Australian and in addition to

photography, undertook other varied occupations, such as author, law clerk, gold miner,

aerial surveyor, mail-cart driver, film maker and lecturer. He also wrote under the

pseudonym Fiona Stuart.

Sydney married Fanny Jean Caporn, daughter of Averland James Caporn and Harriet Webb, on 14 Jun 1930 in Beaconsfield, Fremantle, WA. The marriage ended in divorce on 19 Dec 1950. (Fanny Jean Caporn was born in 1905 in Freemantle, Western Australia and died on 2 Aug 1983 in South Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia.)