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Arthur Blackburn had a unique experience encompassing the most awful locations Australians found themselves in both world wars. Blackburn was a scout at Gallipoli and made it further inland on day 1 than any other Australian soldier in the whole campaign. He then won the VC at Pozieres before being invalided home with pleurisy. Pursuing a legal career between wars Blackburn packed away the wig and robes to command a machine gun battalion in WW2 where he fought the Vichy French in Syria and the Japanese in Java. Blackburn was taken prisoner by the Japanese and spent 3 years in POW camps.
Sources: Information drawn from the Australian War Memorial, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Anzac Portal, and Wakefield Press’s Arthur Blackburn, VC by Andrew Faulkner.
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Arthur Blackburn had a unique experience encompassing the most awful locations Australians found themselves in both world wars. Blackburn was a scout at Gallipoli and made it further inland on day 1 than any other Australian soldier in the whole campaign. He then won the VC at Pozieres before being invalided home with pleurisy. Pursuing a legal career between wars Blackburn packed away the wig and robes to command a machine gun battalion in WW2 where he fought the Vichy French in Syria and the Japanese in Java. Blackburn was taken prisoner by the Japanese and spent 3 years in POW camps.
Sources: Information drawn from the Australian War Memorial, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Anzac Portal, and Wakefield Press’s Arthur Blackburn, VC by Andrew Faulkner.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.