P02466.049 Accession Number: P02466.049

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NSW. Paybook photograph of NX11170 Private Ronald Ernest Albert Bates (served as Allen Bannister), 2/1st Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Bates, aged 22, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 20 May 1941. He was the son of Charles Andrew and Ivy May Bates, of Forest Lodge, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row A, Plot 2. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.049
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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