P02466.070 Accession Number: P02466.070

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NSW. Paybook photograph of NX13466 Private Albert Edgar Geale, 2/2nd Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Geale, aged 30, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 1 June 1941. He was the son of William Thompson Geale and Mary Ann Geale, of Temora, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row D, Plot 5. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.070
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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