P02466.057 Accession Number: P02466.057

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NSW. Paybook photograph of NX12793 Lance Bombardier William Francis Woodland, 2/3rd Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Lance Bombardier Woodland, aged 21, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 21 May 1941. He was the son of Reginald Raymond and Alma Winifred Woodland, of Kings Cross, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row A, 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
P02466.057
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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