"I've been in every scran in Gallipoli and in France since 'The fcapding,' and I've never had one day's illness—never been off duty once up to last February, when I got trench fever," said one of thirty long-cervice men who returned to Australia by the last transport. It was one of the original Anzacs speaking one of the half-dozen heroes granted six months' furlough from the firingline on account of their four years' spell of duty. Of that six months these veterans hoped to have at least two months in Australia.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16308, 4 September 1918, Page 5
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