WA. Paybook photograph of WX823 Private John Philip Utting, 2/11th Battalion, Australian ...

Accession Number P02466.242
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 WX823 Private John Philip Utting, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Utting, aged 33, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 31 May 1941. He was the son of John Francis Crewes Utting and Ellen Utting, of Mortdale, NSW. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row D, Plot 14. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)