P02466.078 Accession Number: P02466.078

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NSW. May 1940. Paybook photograph of NX15340 Private Ronald John Humphreys, 2/1st Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Humphreys, aged 29, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 24 May 1941. He was the son of Dorcas Humphreys and the husband of Myrtle Rose Humphreys, of Marrickville, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row A, Plot 10. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.078
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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