P02466.120 Accession Number: P02466.120

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX6232 Private Arthur Schmidt, 2/8th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Schmidt, aged 34, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 29 May 1941. He was the son of Frederick William and Jane Schmidt, of West Brunswick, Vic. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row D, Plot 1. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.120
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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