P02466.041 Accession Number: P02466.041

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NSW. Paybook photograph of NX9496 Private Bruce Reginald Patterson, 2/1st Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Patterson, aged 35, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 1 June 1941. He was the son of Joseph Ernest and Annie Patterson, and the husband of Florence May Patterson, of Rozelle, NSW. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 11. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.041
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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