P02466.285 Accession Number: P02466.285

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX2318 Lance Corporal Raymond Cecil Moorey, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Lance Corporal Moorey, aged 36, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 28 May 1941. He was the son of William Edmund and Mary Jane Moorey, of Upper Norwood, London, England. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row C, Plot 18. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.285
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
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Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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