P02466.278 Accession Number: P02466.278

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX2187 Private Cyril Benjamin Hearn, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Hearn, aged 22, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 28 May 1941. He was the son of Benjamin Thomas Hearn and Sybil Sibine Hearn, of Linton, Vic. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row C, Plot 16. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.278
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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