P02466.224 Accession Number: P02466.224

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX419 Private Alfred Girdlestone, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Girdlestone, aged 29, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 20 May 1941. He was the son of John Thomas Girdlestone and Mary Girdlestone, of Maylands, WA. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row C, Plot 13. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.224
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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