NSW. Paybook photograph of NX8152 Gunner William Robert Dolan, 2/3rd Field Regiment, Royal ...

Accession Number P02466.036
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

NSW. Paybook photograph of NX8152 Gunner William Robert Dolan, 2/3rd Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Gunner Dolan, aged 24, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 21 May 1941. He was the son of Joseph James Dolan and Annie May Dolan, of Rozelle, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row A, Plot 5. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)