Mervyn Alwyn BLAND

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Service Number:	VX55524
Enlisted:	12 May 1941
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	Field Baking Companies / Platoons
Born:	Horsham, Victoria, Australia., 22 October 1907
Home Town:	Essendon, Moonee Valley, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Transport Driver.
Died:	Accidental (Falling from a creek bank), New Guinea, 18 June 1944, aged 36 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery (CWGC) Grave Reference Location ~ Plot T. Row B. Grave 13. Personal Inscription ~ "DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI". ("It is sweet and proper to die for one's country.")
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 (WW2) , Lieutenant, VX55524
20 Apr 1944:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, Field Baking Companies / Platoons, 8th Australian Field Bakery Platoon.

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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.