RAWLINSON, Robert Croft
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Rank:
Corporal
Unit / Base:
'42 Commando RM'
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
RM 17402
Honours & Awards:
Corporal Robert Rawlinson aged 23 of Portsmouth was awarded the Military Medal for gallant and distinguished service in operations. He was in command of one of the two sections of 42 Commando RM that assaulted Limbang Police Station, Sarawak, on the 12th December 1962 to release hostages being held there. Cpl. Rawlinson was wounded during this operation in which five other Marines died.
Sources
London Gazettes 43009, page 4693.
National Archives file WO 373/127/98.
Dundee Courier, 13 Dec.1962, page 7.
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