P02466.280 Accession Number: P02466.280

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX2271 Private Francis James Reid, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Reid, aged 29, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 28 May 1941. He was the son of James and Agnes Reid, of Boulder City, WA. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row C, Plot 14. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.280
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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