P02466.124 Accession Number: P02466.124

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX7124 Private James Norman Griffin, 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Griffin, aged 22, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 20 May 1941. He was the son of William George and Esther Mary Griffin, of Culcairn, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row D, 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
P02466.124
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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