P02466.277 Accession Number: P02466.277

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX2059 Private Reginald Charles Mayer, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Mayer, aged 23, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 20 May 1941. He was the son of Reginald Harry and Gladys Emelie Mayer, of Beverley, WA. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row B, Plot 8. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.277
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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