P02466.185 Accession Number: P02466.185

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX33409 Gunner James Stanilaus Gibson, 3rd Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Gunner Gibson, aged 33, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 29th May 1941. He was the son of Mr and Mrs W. Gibson, of Thornbury, 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
P02466.185
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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