The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and other operations and whose names are recorded on the Roll of Honour. At each ceremony the story behind one of the names on the Roll of Honour is told. Hosted by Gerard Pratt, the story for this day was on Lieutenant Commander Robert William Rankin.
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Full length portrait of Lieutenant Commander Robert William Rankin, RAN, taken around 1936. He was born on 3 June 1907 at Cobar, New South Wales, and in 1921 he entered the RAN College at Jervis Bay.
