P02466.225 Accession Number: P02466.225

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX471 Private John Robert Fraser, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Fraser, aged 19, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 27 May 1941. He was the son of John and Emma Elizabeth Fraser, of Mount Hawthorn, WA. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row C, Plot 14. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.225
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Brand: Kodak - T-Max
Format: 35mm
Support: Acetate
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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