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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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P02466.300
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Colour: Black & white
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Copyright expired - public domain
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