P02466.109 Accession Number: P02466.109

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX4852 Private Robert George Thomas, 2/8th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Thomas, aged 34, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 26 May 1941. He was the son of Joseph and Florence Margaret Thomas, of Ballarat, Vic. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row E, Plot 8. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.109
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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