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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX12566 Bombardier Douglas Allan Chalmers, 2/3rd Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Bombardier Chalmers, aged 22, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 28 April 1941. He was the son of David Forsythe Maine Chalmers and Jessie Chalmers and the husband of Joan Eileen Chalmers, of South Yarra, Vic. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row B, Plot 4. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
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Accession Number
P02466.131
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Colour: Black & white
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Copyright expired - public domain
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