WA. Paybook photograph of WX471 Private John Robert Fraser, 2/11th Battalion, Australian ...

Accession Number P02466.225
Collection type Photograph
Object type 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

WA. Paybook photograph of WX471 Private John Robert Fraser, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Fraser, aged 19, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 27 May 1941. He was the son of John and Emma Elizabeth Fraser, of Mount Hawthorn, WA. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row C, Plot 14. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)