View Cenotaph here in Morchard Cemetery Sth Aust. WW2 Service Australian Army Rank Private SX2198 Posting on Death: 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion. He was killed in action in Crete . Medals: Defence Medal. Description of SA. Paybook photograph of SX2198 Private Philip Joseph Rex Martin, 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Martin, aged 21, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 24 May 1941. He was the son of William Jacob and Victoria Louise Martin, of Orroroo, SA. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 12. He is also remembered on the Roll of Honour in his hometown of Orroroo SA & his name is located at panel 74 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
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