P02466.100 Accession Number: P02466.100

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX768 Gunner Richard Wilfred Mitchell, 2/2nd Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Gunner Mitchell, aged 31, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 24 May 1941. He was the son of Edward and Emily Maude Mitchell, and the husband of Marjorie Louisa Mitchell, of Richmond, Vic. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 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
P02466.100
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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