P02466.024 Accession Number: P02466.024

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NSW. Paybook photograph of NX5428 Private Andrew Strahorn, 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Strahorn, aged 36, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 21 May 1941. He was the son of Andrew and Annie Strahorn, of Yeoval, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row B, Plot 17. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.024
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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