WW2 Service Australian Army Rank Gunner VX48557. Posting on Death: 3 Light Anti Aircraft Regiment Royal Australian Artillery. He was killed in action at Sea. Vic. Paybook photograph of VX48557 Gunner Edwin James Bland Rawlins, 3rd Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Gunner Rawlins, aged 20, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 29 May 1941. He was the son of Edwin Bland Rawlins and Catherine Ann Rawlins, of Broadford, Vic. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 10. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Remembrance Edwin James Bland Rawlins's name is located at panel 21 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial. Family Son of Edwin Bland Rawlins and Catherine Ann Rawlins, of Broadford. Victoria, Australia. Father Edwin Bland Lionel Rawlins (1898-1981) Mother Catherine Ann Whiteside (1897-1971)
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