P02466.281 Accession Number: P02466.281

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX2276 Gunner Harold George Veale, 2/3rd Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Gunner Veale, aged 33, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 21 May 1941. He was the son of William Henry and Ellen Veale, of Port Pirie, SA. He is buried in the Suda Bay War Cemetery Section 5, Row A, 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
P02466.281
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film copy negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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