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Gunner DAVID MELDRUM HAWKINS

Service Number: NX191479
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Australian Artillery

A.I.F. Rabaul Fixed Defences

Date of Death

Died 12 March 1942

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RABAUL (BITA PAKA) WAR CEMETERY

B. B. 2.

Papua New Guinea

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of William and Ruby Eveline Hawkins, of Canterbury, New South Wales, Australia.
  • Personal Inscription DEARLY LOVED & SADLY MISSED BY FATHER, MOTHER, BROTHERS & SISTERS
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Buried or commemorated at

RABAUL (BITA PAKA) WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 1153
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