P02466.290 Accession Number: P02466.290

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WA. Paybook photograph of WX2502 Private William Joseph Evans, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Evans, aged 35, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 27 May 1941. He was the son of William and Jane Evans and foster-son of Catherine Bowls, of Maylands, WA. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row A, Plot 1. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.290
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
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Copyright expired - public domain

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