P02466.276 Accession Number: P02466.276

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX2014 Private Douglas Bernard Wilkins, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Wilkins, aged 21, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 22 May 1941. He was the son of Maurice Owen Wilkins and Olive May Eveline Wilkins, of Shirley, Croydon, Surrey, England. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row E, Plot 7. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.276
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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