P02466.236 Accession Number: P02466.236

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX750 Private Reginald Victor Merrick, Headquarters 19th Brigade, Australian Infantry. Private Merrick, aged 27, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 28 May 1941. He was the son of James and Willis Merrick and the husband of Dorothy Marie Merrick, of South Fremantle, WA. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row D, Plot 2. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.236
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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