P02466.240 Accession Number: P02466.240

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX807 Private Albert Beck, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Beck, aged 32, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 29 May 1941. He was the son of Edwin John and Jane Beck, of Whitstable, Kent, England. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face12. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.240
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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