P02466.174 Accession Number: P02466.174

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX31385 Gunner John Edward Phillips, 3rd Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Gunner Phillips, aged 24, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 29 May 1941. He was the son of William Robert and Mary Anne Phillips, and the husband of Ethel Maude Phillips, of West Footscray, Vic. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 10. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.174
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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