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  2. Bombed the Gunners

    During some of the hard fighting in France CAPTAIN R. C. GRIEVE found his command sadly knocked about by an unseen battery of machine-guns. He succeeded in locating ...

    Article : 161 words
  3. He Cleared the Village

    CAPTAIN PERCY HERBERT CHERRY. V.C., M.C., 26th Battalion, was in command of a company detailed to storm and dear a village. This he did, but the clearance was ...

    Article : 185 words
  4. Australian Heroes

    CAPTAIN JACKA, V.C., M.C. (with bar), of the 14th Battalion, was the first of the Australians to attach the coveted V.C. The story of his winning the Cross has been told and ...

    Article : 263 words
  5. For Valior—and Generalship

    CAPTAIN NEWLANDS, of the 10th Battalion, war. in the railway service of Victoria before he entered the Garrison Artillery of that State (in which he was born, second son of Mr ...

    Article : 214 words
  6. Captured a Garrison

    PRIVATE BUGDEN, of the 31st, enlisted in Queensland in May last year, and was killed— after doing some splendid work for his side— on September 28 of the current year. He was ...

    Article : 239 words
  7. A Bluff Which Carried

    PRIVATE JORGEN CHRISTIAN JENSEN, V.C., left South Australia with reinforcements of the 10th Battalion in August, 1915. He is a naturalised Dane of about 24 years, and worked ...

    Article : 218 words
  8. With Bomb and Bayonet

    As in so many instances in which the act which won the V.C. was an inspiration to a hardly-pressed company of our fighters, the gallantry of SERGEANT JULIAN HOWELL ...

    Article : 214 words
  9. Held on Under Bomb Fire

    LIEUT. HAROLD TUBB, of the 7th Battalion, won his Cross on the same day as the distinction fell to Symons of the 7th—and for bravery of much the same type, under a hot ...

    Article : 170 words
  10. A Gallant of the Bravest

    PRIVATE MARTIN O'MEARA, of the 12th Battalion, is another of the West Australians who did splendid work for his side. In the course of four days of heavy fighting, when the patch ...

    Article : 166 words
  11. FOR VALOUR

    CAPT MONAMARA VC CAPT CHERRY. VC LIEUT. SYMONS.VC CAPT BLACKBURN. VC ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 75 words
  12. Murray's Wonderful Work

    The story of the gallantry of MAJOR MURRAY, V.C., D.S.O., etc., has been told in the Sunday Times previously. He is one of the much-decorated of our soldiers, but the special ...

    Article : 270 words
  13. More Than Thirty Scalps

    CORPORAL PEELER, of the 3rd Pioneers (a composite from all States of the Commonwealth) is one of the many Australians to whom the word fear has no ...

    Article : 157 words
  14. Charged Alone

    When his platoon was held up at an enemy strong point and severe casualties prevented progress, LANCE-CORPORAL THOMAS BEDE KENNY (2nd Battalion), under heavy ...

    Article : 121 words
  15. With Eighty Enemy Dead

    The stand of LIEUTENANT CHAS. POPE (18th Reinforcements of the 11th Battalion) with a picket at Lagnicourt on April 15 of this year, will be given space when the story of the ...

    Article : 176 words
  16. Bracketed Braves

    The morning of August 9, 1915, was one of the busy days (at Lone Pine) of the Anzacs, and rewards for bravery were numerous. On that day CAPTAIN SHOUT, LIEUTENANT ...

    Article : 169 words
  17. A Target for Six Hours

    At Lone Pine, that treacherous man-trap of machine guns and barbed wire, with thousands of stalwart bombers hurling death, CORPORAL JACK HAMILTON, of the 1st Battalion, won ...

    Article : 194 words
  18. With Bomb and Bavonet

    PRIVATE JOHN LEAK (9th Battalion) was one of a party which captured an enemy strong point eventually, after some very determined fighting. At one time in the course of the ...

    Article : 138 words
  19. Killed Team and Took Gun

    JOHN CARROLL, who has attached a V.C. for W.A., was a guard on the Kurrawang wood line at the time of his enlistment. He won the Cross, in the beginning of August, for ...

    Article : 142 words
  20. "A Precious Asset To Us All."

    At Lone Pine on August 9, 1915, the Turks, heavily reinforced, came on in a furious torrent. The big attack of the Australians had failed. The enemy held a communication trench ...

    Article : 217 words
  21. Jackson, of Gunbar

    PRIVATE WILLIAM JACKSON, 7th Battalion, was made much of on his return to his home State, He is one of the youngest of the V.C.'s—twenty years and three months—son ...

    Article : 216 words
  22. Four Times Wounded

    LIEUTENANT RUPERT VANCE MOON was wounded in the initial advance on a hostile trench, the objective of the attack of his company in co-operation with another force whose ...

    Article : 194 words
  23. First West Australian

    LIEUTENANT HUGO V. THROSSELL was the first West Australian to win the V.G. in the present war. He was attached to the 10th Light Horse ...

    Article : 240 words
  24. The Only Man Left

    PRIVATE THOMAS COOKE, 8th Battalion, after a Lewis gun had been disabled, was ordered to take his gun and gun team to a most dangerous part of the line. Mere he did ...

    Article : 89 words
  25. Playing Catches With Death

    LANCE-CORPORAL LEONARD KEYZOR (1st Battalion, A.I.F.) was one of the men who defied death to get him. On August 7 and 8,1915, there was some fierce fighting in the ...

    Article : 208 words
  26. Turned Their Gun On The Enemy

    SERGEANT J. J. DWYER, of the 4th Machine-Gun Company—late 15th Battalion (Queensland and Tasmania)—enlisted with the Tasmanians in February of last year. He was ...

    Article : 159 words
  27. Charged a Pill-Box

    The Island State has sent some of the gamest of the Australians to the hottest parts of the lines. SERGEANT LEWIS McGEE, of the 40th Battalion, was killed in a fine piece of ...

    Article : 114 words
  28. Birks Went on Alone

    SUB-LIEUTENANT FRED BIRKS put up a record in single-handed work in France in October. With a corporal as his sole support are rushed an enemy post that was holding up ...

    Article : 155 words
  29. Most Conspicuous Bravery

    SERGEANT CLAUDE CHAS. CASTLETON, of the 5th Machine Gun Company, 18th Battalion, of the A.I.F., was gazetted V.C. (posthumously) on Sept. 26, 1916, for most ...

    Article : 136 words
  30. Brought in the Last Man

    PRIVATE REG. ROY INWOOD, of the 10th Battalion (South Australia) did some very fine work on his own initiative. Early in the morning of Sept. 21 he went out alone and ...

    Article : 165 words
  31. Killed the Crew and Took Gun

    SERGEANT JOHN WOODS WHITTLE (26th Battalion) is a Tasmanian, well known as an Interstate athlete, and the undefeated heavyweight boxing champion ...

    Article : 185 words
  32. A Hero of the Air

    One of the young Australian game birds of the air is LIEUTENANT F. H. McNAMARA, V.C., a graduate of the flying School at Point Cook (Vic.). At Gaza he was despatched with ...

    Article : 238 words
  33. Symons of the Seventh

    About 5 o'clock in the morning of August 1915, the Turks came down in strong force on an isolated Australian sap at Lone Pine. The attack was vigorous, and six of our officers were ...

    Article : 220 words
  34. A Quarter-mile of Trench

    CAPTAIN ARTHUR SEAFORTH BLACKBURN, of the 10th Battalion, was ordered to take fifty men and drive the enemy from a strong position, somewhere in France. With ...

    Article : 177 words
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