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Passchendaele: a name written in blood

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:April 24, 2020
Post Category:Greg Ray's Writing / History / Militaria / Miscellaneous

If getting killed by the thousands is glorious, it was glorious in the Ypres battle. My battalion came out 200 strong out of a thousand. It breaks my heart when…

Russell Atkinson was labelled a deserter on the basis of no evidence at all. How Smith's Weekly reported his eventual vindication.

How a vanished soldier’s “deserter” label harmed his family, and how he eventually “died”

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:April 17, 2019
Post Category:History / Militaria / Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Private Russell Atkinson went into the front line with his unit of the Australian Imperial Force's 54th Battalion in October 1916. When his unit was relieved on October 28, he…