P02466.098 Accession Number: P02466.098

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX616 Gunner Phillip Percival Nelson, 2/2nd Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Gunner Nelson, aged 24, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 26 June 1941. He was the son of Phillip Benjamin and Margaret Annie Nelson, of Caulfield, Vic. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row B, 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
P02466.098
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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