Mervyn Alwyn BLAND

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Service Number:	VX55524
Enlisted:	12 May 1941
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Horsham, Victoria Australia, 22 October 1907
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Accidental, New Guinea, 18 June 1944, aged 36 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery Plot T, Row B, Grave 13 Roll of Honour Melbourne, Lae War Cemetery, Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lieutenant, VX55524
12 May 1941:	Enlisted Royal Park, Victoria, Australia
12 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, VX55524

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Australian Army Service Corps - 7Baking Platoon

Rank - Lt

Son of Edgar Bernard Louis and Elizabeth Emily Bland; husband of Verna Agnes Bland, of Moonee Ponds, Victoria.