P02466.169 Accession Number: P02466.169

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX28691 Private Alfred John Stewart Lancashire, 2/7th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Lancashire, aged 21, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 29 May 1941. He was the son of Claude Alfred and Eileen Stewart Lancashire, of North Caulfield, 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
P02466.169
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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