P02466.188 Accession Number: P02466.188

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX35118 Gunner Michael Joseph O'Connor, 3rd Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Gunner O'Connor, aged 39, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 29 May 1941. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Michael Joseph O'Connor, and the husband of Ellen O'Connor, of East Brunswick, 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
P02466.188
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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