P02466.213 Accession Number: P02466.213

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Vic. Paybook photograph of VX47883 Gunner Leslie Keith Crofts, 3rd Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Gunner Crofts, aged 22, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 29 May 1941. He was the son of George Henry and Ethel Jean Crofts, of Koo-Weerup, 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
P02466.213
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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