P02466.047 Accession Number: P02466.047

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NSW. Paybook photograph of NX11063 Private Raymond Hugh Wilfred Newson, 2/1st Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Newson, aged 26, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 27 May 1941. He was the son of Robert and Emma Newson, of Wentworthville, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row E, Plot 8. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.047
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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