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Able Seaman Lawrence Kain (Service No:Pa3652) enlisted in the RAN at Port Adelaide on 2 March 1943 as an Ordinary Seaman attached to HMAS Cerberus. Able Seaman Kain was attached to HMAS Penguin at Discharge on 3 April 1946.

Lawrnece Jnr was born at Gameracha in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia in 1925, second of six children of Lawrence Kain Snr (b1887 in Blumberg, South Australia) and Mary Ellen Murphy (b1891 in Adelaide, South Australia). Lawrence Snr was a Farm Labourer in 1915 when he enlisted in the AIF (Private; Service No:119), and following his Discharge, he and Mary married in Marion in 1922. The couple settled at Gameracha in the Aadelaide Hills, where they raised their family and Lawrence Snr was a Dairy Farmer. Lawrnece Snr enlisted in the ACMF in 1941 (Private; Service No:S1572), and was attached to 25/33 Garrison Battalion in 1943 when he died in an accident at Loveday Military Camp - 'Pte Lawrence Kain, whose death occurred at a military camp on December 6, was an Anzac in the last war in which he served abroad for nearly four years. After his discharge in 1919 he was engaged in dairy farming on the old homestead where he was born. He was serving in an Australian garrison battalion at the time of his death. A son is serving in the Navy, and a daughter is in the WAAAF' (Trove; 1943).

Lawrence was a Farm Labourer when he enlisted in the RAN at Port Adelaide on 2 March 1943. Following his Discharge, Lawrence 'died in the Mount Pleasant Hospital yesterday from injuries received when his motorcycle side-slipped near Mount Pleasant' (Trove; 1948).