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Private RAYMOND BLACKBURN

Service Number: VX21542
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Army Medical Corps

A.I.F. 2/5 Field. Amb.

Date of Death

Died 23 October 1942

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORT MORESBY (BOMANA) WAR CEMETERY

A3. A. 9.

Papua New Guinea

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Michael Joseph Whitlock Blackburn and Betsy Jane Blackburn, of Hawthorn, Victoria.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

PORT MORESBY (BOMANA) WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 3828
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