AUSTRALIAN HERCULES
BATTERY CAPTURED SINGLE-
HANDED,
(AOSTBALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received August 19, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, 18th August. Mr. Keith Murdoch, writing from the Australian headquarters, refers to the keenness of the troops for further fighting. Their confidence has roused all their latent desire to meet a drive the enemy headlong. He describes a champion New South Wales unit, a. man o£ Herculean type, who astonished the Germans during the fighting at Bretonneux by breaking an officer s neck with his fingers. He got well ahead of his company, and reached a German field battery from which the enemy appeared to have fled.' Suddenly he was attacked from a dugout behind the battery. Itusbing forward with his bayonet fixed, ne killed nine of the Bodies", who were quivering there and showing little fighting spirit. Thus he captured the battery.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1918, Page 8
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