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Beneath Hill 60

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by Will Davies


  Chapter 18: After the Earthquake

  1 Bean, Official History, Vol. IV, p. 595

  2 Ibid.

  3 Ibid., p. 679

  4 Royal Engineers’ Institute, Military Mining, p. 42

  5 Ibid.

  6 Ibid., pp. 42–43

  7 Bean, Official History, Vol. IV, p. 954

  8 Quoted from a report by Oberstleutnant Otto Füsslein and taken from Heinrici, Paul, Das Ehrenbuch der Deutschen Pioniere, 1931, p. 541

  9 Woodward, Vol. II, p. 82

  Chapter 19: A New Role and a New Danger

  1 Woodward, Vol. II, p. 90

  2 Ibid.

  3 Bean, Official History, Vol. IV, p. 761

  4 Woodward, Vol. II, p. 94

  5 Reid, Richard, Beaucoup Australiens Ici, p. 24

  6 Woodward, Vol. II, p. 96

  7 Ibid., p. 97

  8 Ibid.

  9 Ibid.

  10 Ibid., p. 98

  11 Ibid., p. 100

  12 Ibid., p. 101

  13 Ibid., pp. 101–102

  14 Ibid., p. 102

  15 Ibid.

  16 Ibid., p. 103

  17 Ibid.

  18 Ibid., p. 106

  Chapter 20: The Last Battle

  1 Woodward, Vol. II, p. 83

  2 Ibid., p. 108

  3 Ibid.

  4 Ibid., p. 111

  5 Ibid., p. 113

  6 Supplement to the London Gazette (31089), 9 December 1919, p. 15295

  7 AWM Encyclopaedia Statistics – Military

  8 Woodward, Vol. II, pp. 114–115

  9 Ibid.

  Chapter 21: Going Home

  1 Woodward, Vol. II, pp. 117–118

  2 Ibid., p. 117

  3 Ibid., Vol. II, p. 119

  4 Ibid., Vol. II, pp. 118–119

  5 Ibid., Vol. II, p. 125

  6 Ibid., p. 126

  7 Ibid., p. 135

  8 Ibid., p. 136

  Epilogue

  1 Woodward, Vol. V, pp. 7–8

  2 Woodward, Vol. I, p. 34

  3 Ibid.

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