P02466.044 Accession Number: P02466.044

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NSW. Paybook photograph of NX9920 Private William Henry MacDonald Butler, 2/1st Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Butler, aged 25, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 20 May 1941. He was the son of William Henry and Christina MacDonald Butler, of unknown, unknown. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row B, Plot 20. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.044
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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