Mervyn Evan MALKIN

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Service Number:	VX67603
Enlisted:	11 December 1941
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	2nd/1st Anti Tank / Tank Attack Regiment
Born:	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 17 September 1918
Home Town:	Clifton Hill, Yarra, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Boiler Attendant
Died:	Scrub Typhus, New Guinea, 8 June 1945, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery CWGC Grave Reference ~ Plot PP. Row B. Grave 10. Personal Inscription ~ "CHERISHED MEMORIES OF ONE WE LOVED HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE...R.I.P."
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Gunner, VX67603
11 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX67603
2 Apr 1943:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, 2nd/1st Anti Tank / Tank Attack Regiment, 2/1 Anti-Tank Regiment

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