P02466.219 Accession Number: P02466.219

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX256 Corporal William Lowther Thompson, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Corporal Thompson, aged 35, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 28 May 1941. He was the son of William Lowther Thompson and Hanna Thompson, and the husband of Polly Thompson, of Leederville, WA. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 12. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.219
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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