P02466.115 Accession Number: P02466.115

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX5597 Private Ernest Sydney Seaman, 2/7th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Seaman, aged 29, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 8 September 1941. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row A, 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
P02466.115
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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