P02466.105 Accession Number: P02466.105

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX2967 Private John Thomas O'Donnell, 2/7th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private O'Donnell, aged 22, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 27 May 1941. He was the son of Thomas and Eileen O'Donnell, of Daylesford, Vic. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 11. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.105
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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