P02466.036 Accession Number: P02466.036

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NSW. Paybook photograph of NX8152 Gunner William Robert Dolan, 2/3rd Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Gunner Dolan, aged 24, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 21 May 1941. He was the son of Joseph James Dolan and Annie May Dolan, of Rozelle, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row A, Plot 5. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.036
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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