German troops in Milos, Greece, waiting to board
their Junkers 52 transport aircraft for the invasion of Crete, May 1941.
[AWM 069214]
A free-hand drawing by an Australian soldier
who escaped from Crete shows the area around Rethymno including the position
of units, Allied and German, and prisoner of war cages.
[AWM MEB0021]
Corporal Willoughby and his men of the 2/11th Battalion who were killed in action at Perivolia, Crete, 27 May 1941.
Top (left to right): Corporal Thomas Willoughby (AWM P02466.237): Private Francis Green (AWM P02466.298): Lance Corporal Arthur Dowsett (AWM P02466.271): Private George McDermid (AWM P02466.265):
Bottom (left to right): Private Charles Brown (AWM P02466.260): Private Colin Elvy (AWM P02466.244): Private Ronald White (AWM P02466.299): Private John Fraser (AWM P02466.225)
Surrender of the Rethymno force at the airfield,
May 1941. Seated in the foreground, facing the camera, is Captain Cliff Mott,
2/3 Field Regiment.
[Photograph taken by W A Wade]
