P02466.082 Accession Number: P02466.082

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NSW. 8 July 1940. Paybook photograph of NX27261 Private John Freckelton, 2/1st Ordnance Store Company, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. Private Freckelton, aged 34, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 21 May 1941. He was the son of Robert English Freckelton and Anne Freckelton, and the husband of Hazel Olive Freckelton, of Randwick, NSW. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 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
P02466.082
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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