Item 02 : Letters to Dr. Antill Pockley regarding his sons Brian and John Pockley, and other papers, 21 August 1890-19 February 1926 - Page 34

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[Page 34]

Burial about a mile SSW of Villers Bretonneux

Extract from letters written by C E W Bean & F M Cutlack, Official Correspondents with the Aust. Imperial Force in France.

About four in the afternoon our counter attack swept on in magnificent form over the edge of the hill down towards the valley. Queenslanders, New South Welshman South & Western Australians & others advanced exactly as they had done a thousand times in practice on parts of the line which had been driven in. It so happened that the Queenslanders while advancing

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