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743:"Temporary Brigadier Raymond Ladais Sandover | Australian War Memorial"
699:"Guarding it even in death: The Australians at Rethymno 20–29 May 1941"
644:"Temporary Brigadier Raymond Ladais Sandover | Australian War Memorial"
674:"Biography of Brigadier Raymond Ladais Sandover (1910 – ), Australia"
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Brigadier Raymond Sandover at Lae Base, 3 October 1944
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514:Distinguished Service Order
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191:Raymond Ladais Sandover
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912:Australian brigadiers
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229:Early life and career
167:Efficiency Decoration
616:"The London Gazette"
518:New Britain Campaign
414:Temporary brigadier
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298:2/3rd Field Regiment
247:East Surrey Regiment
390:Lieutenant colonel
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840:31 October
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