P02466.220 Accession Number: P02466.220

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX279 Private Frederick Keith Fraser, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Fraser, aged 21, died on 24 December 1941, as a Prisoner of War (POW), after being captured defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion. He was the son of James M. Fraser and Ellen Fraser, of Victoria Park, WA. He is buried in the Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany, Section 4, Row A, Plot 34. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.220
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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