P02466.083 Accession Number: P02466.083

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NSW. June 1940. Paybook photograph of NX28802 Private Colin John Maxwell, 2/1st Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Maxwell, aged 19, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 27 May 1941. He was the son of Clarence Bede Maxwell and Violet Maxwell, of Ashfield, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row E, Plot 2. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.083
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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