John Thomas O'Donnell

VX2967 Posting on Death: 2/7th Australian Infantry Battalion. He was killed in action in Crete. Vic. Paybook photograph of VX2967 Private John Thomas O'Donnell, 2/7th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private O'Donnell, aged 22, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 27 May 1941. He was the son of Thomas and Eileen O'Donnell, of Daylesford, Vic. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 11. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. His name is located at panel 32 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial Family & Military Connections Son of Thomas and Eileen O'Donnell, of Daylesford, Victoria, Australia. Brother: Dennis Patrick Joseph O'Donnell VX55145 POW Malaya. Father Thomas Michael O'Donnell (1897-1969) Mother Eileen Elizabeth Butler (1896-1958)