NSW. Paybook photograph of NX2650 Private Howard John Jennens, 2/1st Battalion, Australian ...

Accession Number P02466.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

NSW. Paybook photograph of NX2650 Private Howard John Jennens, 2/1st Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Jennens, aged 27, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 21 May 1941. He was the son of Henry Harbridge Jennens and Frederica Violet Emma Jennens, of Ashgrove, Qld. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row C, Plot 8. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)