P02466.300 Accession Number: P02466.300

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Paybook photograph of WX42541 Sapper Leslie Francis Atwell, 2/8 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. Sapper Atwell, aged 19, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 28 May 1941. He was the son of William Henry and Lillian May Atwell of Thornbury, Vic. He is buried in the Suda Bay War Cemetery Section 5, Row D, Plot 15. (Photograph supplied by the Soldiers Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02466.300
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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