P02466.130 Accession Number: P02466.130

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX12527 Private Henry Larmuth Wilkes, 2/7th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Wilkes, aged 33, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 26 May 1941. He was the son of Richard Charles and Ida Wilkes, of Coburg, Vic. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 11. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.130
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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