P02466.123 Accession Number: P02466.123

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX6537 Lance Corporal William Henry Briggs, 2/8th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Lance Corporal Briggs, aged 27, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 28 May 1941. He was the son of William and Emily Jane Briggs, of Malvern, 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
P02466.123
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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