P02466.081 Accession Number: P02466.081

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NSW. 1940. Paybook photograph of NX23840 Corporal James Patterson Baird, 2/1st Battalion, Australian Infantry. Corporal Baird, aged 40, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 20 May 1941. He was the son of John and Hannah Baird, and the husband of Martha Baird, of Kogarah, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row A, Plot 12. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.081
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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