WA. Paybook photograph of WX737 Lance Corporal Allan Leonard Harrison, 2/11th Battalion, ...

Accession Number P02466.234
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
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 WX737 Lance Corporal Allan Leonard Harrison, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Lance Corporal Harrison, aged 22, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 26 May 1941. He was the son of Allan Knox Harrison and Florence May Harrison, of Northam, WA. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 5, Row C, Plot 11. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)