Accession Number | P02466.094 |
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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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Tas. Paybook photograph of TX241 Corporal Cecil John Pedley, 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, ...
Description
Tas. Paybook photograph of TX241 Corporal Cecil John Pedley, 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. Corporal Pedley, aged 28, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 25 May 1941. He was the son of Joseph Arthur and Helen Margaret Pedley, of Dunorlan, Tas. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 12. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)