Official accounts of the torpedoing of the transport Southland in the Ægean Sea, while coveying Australian troops from Alexandrai to Mudros, indicate the greatest ...
Article : 340 wordsGENERAL LEGGE, Who, with his staff, was on board the Southland enrouth for the firing line. THE LATE COLONEL R. LINTON, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 33 wordsCaptain Garrett belonged to Surrey Hills, Victoria. His father is Mr. H. F. Garrett, of Cromwell, Alexander avenue, Surrey Hills. ...
Article : 673 wordsCorporal Robert Young, of the 23rd Battalion, who was a member of the staff of the Bank of Australasia at Port Fairy before enlisting, has written to his mother in ...
Article : 248 wordsAmongst other accounts is that of Milton A. Williamson, whose long letter covers much of the ground dealt with in the preceding stories. Amongst others, he saw ...
Article : 807 wordsLANCE-CORPORAL R. W. AHEARN. LIEUTENANT J. T. HAMILTON ARAM. LIEUTENANT H. A. CROWTHER. CORPORAL E. L. WHITE. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsLieutenant H. A. Crowther writes:—Our transport Southland was torpedoed four days ago at 9.47 a.m. There was just a white stteak on the water, and an awful ...
Article : 426 wordsThe official account issued by general headquarters after the torpedicing of the Southland was as follow:— "At 9;45 a.m. on September 2 the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,377 wordsLieut. Frank L. Apperly, R.A.M.C., wrote to his parents at Englehawk:— "Alexandria, Egypt, Sept, 9.—Since my last letter from Malta we have again been ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 369 wordsA modest account of a very heroic deed is given by Lanee-Corporal R. W. Ahearn, of A Company, 21st Battalion, who was one of the men who volunteered to go down into ...
Article : 437 wordsThe following letter is from Private E. O. Thomas, machine-gun section, 21st Battalion, to his mother, at Camberwell:— "Since I lust wrote things have proved ...
Article : 209 wordsThe following letter from a soldier at the front comes to us from Mr. Hutchinson (Minister for Lands):— "The story of the transport Southland ...
Article : 761 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearee) yesterday made available the following copy of the "Special Order of the Day" issued by the General Headquarters, in regard to the ...
Article : 689 wordsThe torpedoing of the Southland is reforred to in the last letter written to his parents by Corporal J. D. Burns, who was retently reported killed in action. ...
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Advertising : 34 wordsWriting from the iront, an officer in the Army Medical Corps says:— "I have jut met an English officer, who was on the Southland when she was struck ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 23 Nov 1915, Page 5
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