Officers of the 2/1st Field Regiment on board the SS "Pennland" en route from Alexandria, Egypt ...

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Accession Number 069827
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made At sea
Date made 12 April 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Officers of the 2/1st Field Regiment on board the SS "Pennland" en route from Alexandria, Egypt to Athens, Greece. Identified left to right; NX134 Captain Grahame Yorke Scarlett; NX109 Captain R.F.A Becke, Regimental Medical Officer and NX147 Captain Kenneth Folkard Dwyer. Captain Dwyer was killed in action on 20 April near the villiage of Kravasaras, south of Thermopylae, Greece. He was 29 at the time of his death (see also 006122).