020207 Accession Number: 020207

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NX378 Lieutenant Colonel John Wilson Crawford E.D. (later Brigadier, accidentally killed in Australia 7 March 1943), Commanding Officer of 2/17th Infantry Battalion, watching, from Post 32 in the El Adem Sector, the activity of a patrol about 1,000 yards out.

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Accession Number
020207
Photographer
Major Frederick James Howard
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c August 1941
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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