P02466.116 Accession Number: P02466.116

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX5687 Corporal Charles Russell Barker, 2/7th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Corporal Barker, 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 Charles Russell Barker and Julia Mary Barker, of Warrnambool, Vic. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row C, Plot 5. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.116
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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