It is quite untrue that you can't hear the shell when it hits you. Australians prove it untrue at Gaba Tepe every day. The majority of the shells which have been flung at us ...
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Article : 31 wordsNews was received to-day that the Rev. Andrew Gillison, M.A., one of the Presbyterian chaplains at Gallipoli, had been killed. Before going to the front he was pastor of the East ...
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Article : 15 wordsThe Iron Trades Council has notified the authorities [?]t Walsh Island that unless two dismissed men are reinstated 14 days' notice will be given by the men in the lion trades. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 28 Aug 1915, Page 14
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