P02466.016 Accession Number: P02466.016

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NSW. Paybook photograph of NX3954 Private Edwin Norman Best, 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Best, aged 28, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 20 May 1941. He was the son of Norman and Annie Beatrice Best, of Buxton, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row C, Plot 7. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.016
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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