NSW. Paybook photograph of NX9920 Private William Henry MacDonald Butler, 2/1st Battalion, ...

Accession Number P02466.044
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 NX9920 Private William Henry MacDonald Butler, 2/1st Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Butler, aged 25, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 20 May 1941. He was the son of William Henry and Christina MacDonald Butler, of unknown, unknown. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row B, Plot 20. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)