P02466.027 Accession Number: P02466.027

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NSW. Paybook photograph of NX5974 Private John Ernest Withers, 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Withers, aged 24, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 20 May 1941. He was the son of Walter and Ellen Withers. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row B, Plot 13. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.027
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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