Harry Mervyn Victor (Mervyn) LAMBDEN

LAMBDEN, Harry Mervyn Victor

Service Number: 22510
Enlisted: 3 October 1938
Last Rank: Leading Seaman
Last Unit: HMAS Perth (I) D29 WW2
Born: Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, 10 March 1919
Home Town: Hampton, Bayside, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Textile Worker
Died: Killed in Action, Sunda Strait, Netherlands East Indies, 1 March 1942, aged 22 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Plymouth Naval Memorial Plymouth, Plymouth Unitary Authority, Devon, England Panel 72 Col 3
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brighton War Memorial, East Fremantle HMAS Perth (I) Memorial, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea
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World War 2 Service

3 Oct 1938: Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Ordinary Seaman, 22510, HMAS Cerberus (Shore), Melbourne, Victoria
3 Oct 1938: Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Leading Seaman, 22510
1 Mar 1942: Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Leading Seaman, 22510, HMAS Perth (I) D29 WW2

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Harry Mervyn Victor LAMBDENs birth was registered in Victoria in 1919 but on his war records he states he was born on 10th March, 1919 in Lismore, NSW

His parents were Harry LAMBDEN and Ada Ellen MACKIE