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Harry Medlin : ウィキペディア英語版 | Harry Medlin Professor Edwin Harry Medlin (known as Harry) (2 January 1920 – 6 March 2013) was Deputy Chancellor of the University of Adelaide from 1978 to 1997. ==Early life== Medlin was born in Orroroo on 2 January 1920. He was sent to school in Adelaide, then studied at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries from 1936 to 1939. He worked for the Adelaide Electric Supply Company and enlisted in the Australian Army prior to Australia joining the Second World War. He was commissioned in 1939 and promoted to Captain in 1940. He was serving in the 2/1st Fortress Company on the island of Timor when he was captured by the Japanese and held as a prisoner of war in Timor from 23 February 1942 and transferred to Batavia in Java in September 1942〔 until he was freed on 23 September 1945. He was awarded the Efficiency Medal and five campaign stars and medals before leaving the army in 1946.〔 He returned to Adelaide on a troop train from Melbourne on 28 October 1945 He had returned to Australia on the Hospital ship ''Manunda'' after being recovered from the POW camp on 18 September and started the journey home via Singapore on 23 September 1945.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2/AIF Service Record of SX 13860 Lieut. E.H. Medlin. )〕
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