P02466.122 Accession Number: P02466.122

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX6462 Private George Herbert Blowers (Mentioned in Despatches), 2/8th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Blowers, aged 33, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 1 June 1941. He was the son of John and Katherine Eva Blowers, of Rutherglen, Vic. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 12. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.122
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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