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 wordsCAPTAIN 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 wordsCAPTAIN 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 wordsCAPTAIN 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 wordsPRIVATE 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 wordsPRIVATE 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 wordsAs 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 wordsLIEUT. 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 wordsPRIVATE 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 wordsCAPT MONAMARA VC CAPT CHERRY. VC LIEUT. SYMONS.VC CAPT BLACKBURN. VC ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 75 wordsThe 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 wordsCORPORAL 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 wordsWhen 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsAt 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 wordsPRIVATE 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 wordsJOHN 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 wordsAt 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 wordsPRIVATE 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 wordsLIEUTENANT 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 wordsLIEUTENANT 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 wordsPRIVATE 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 wordsLANCE-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 wordsSERGEANT 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 wordsThe 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 wordsSUB-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 wordsSERGEANT 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 wordsPRIVATE 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 wordsSERGEANT JOHN WOODS WHITTLE (26th Battalion) is a Tasmanian, well known as an Interstate athlete, and the undefeated heavyweight boxing champion ...
Article : 185 wordsOne 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 wordsAbout 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 wordsCAPTAIN 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 ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 16 Dec 1917, Page 17
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