P02466.001 Accession Number: P02466.001

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NSW. Paybook photograph of NX2448 Lance Sergeant Percy Gosper, 2/1st Battalion, Australian Infantry. Lance Sergeant Gosper, aged 42, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 23 May 1941. He was the son of Cyrus and Maud Gosper and the husband of Alice Mary Gosper, of North Sydney, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row A, Plot 14. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.001
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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