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WA. Paybook photograph of WX1829 Private Edward Waring, 2/11th Battalion., Australian Infantry. Private Waring, aged 22, died on 20 November 1942, as a Prisoner of War (POW), after being captured on 29 May 1941, while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion. He was the son of Robert and Maria Waring, of Beaconsfield, WA. He is buried in the Cracow Rakowicki Cemetery, Poland, Section 1A, Row C, Plot 6. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
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Accession Number
P02466.270
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Colour: Black & white
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Copyright expired - public domain
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