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WA. Paybook photograph of WX2463 Private Mervyn Daniel Thomas, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Thomas, aged 25, died on 3 September 1943, as a Prisoner of War (POW), after being captured defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion. He was the son of Samuel John and Violet Thomas, of Reedy, WA. He is buried in the Cracow Rakowicki Cemetery, Poland, Section 2, Row B, Plot 3. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
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Accession Number
P02466.288
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Colour: Black & white
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Copyright expired - public domain
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