P02466.235 Accession Number: P02466.235

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX739 Private Frederick William Symmons, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Symmons, aged 23, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 23 May 1941. He was the son of Harold William and Nellie Halden Symmons, of Northam, WA. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row D, Plot 16. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.235
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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