NSW. Paybook photograph of NX7802 Sergeant Sydney Arthur Webb, 2/1st Battalion, Australian ...

Accession Number P02466.035
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

NSW. Paybook photograph of NX7802 Sergeant Sydney Arthur Webb, 2/1st Battalion, Australian Infantry. Sergeant Webb, aged 22, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 22 May 1941. He was the son of Arthur and Ada Mary Webb and the husband of Alma Sophie Webb, of Leichhardt, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row D, Plot 1. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)