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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2873, 17 February 1916, Page 4

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A TALE OF nitAVE DEEDS. Privak-, Adtlison, 2nd Battalion, of Tooivoomba, Queensland, had a talc to 'tell. It waa not of Jv.i.msolf. It was merely ail addition to the fragmentary record of the countlcftti deexls of heroism in the landing and after. "There was a man," he said, "wliomwe all know as 365. That was his regimental number. As a- matter of fact 11« was Private Bethel, of North Sydney. But because lias number was the same as the number of days in the year we always referred to him iis 365. After tho landing, when battalions a>ll mixed up scrambled up the steep hill to bayonet tho Turks on Uio top, I. saw a mere lad got stuck on a ledge. He could not pull himself higher, and Jie yelled to :?fis. avlio was near him. "Hey, mate! Give us a. hand." Then a buUot struck him in Mie log. In a moment •'SGo was across to him, and pk-kiog him up carried him behind a knob. Tho bullets whistling round them all the time. The little cover there did not avail tihc unfortunate lad, for a bullofc carried half his face away. Again 365 picked .him up tenderly. He stuck to him till he died.

"The next thing that caused all the men to lal.k about 305 was when his liattalion was in ;i horrid corner, being enfiladed at Quiiui's Post by a. machine gun. It was cutting them down in rows like a .scythe. At the call for volunteers to put it out of action 305 jumped out of his trench a-ud all alone wont out and located tin , gun. Others followed quickly, and as they ■came on the gun position, saw 3(35 charging furiously around and bayoneting Turks. When they got up tho Turks fled, leaving 305 lying- unconscious on the ground. One of Ills fingers was blown off, his a.ukle was shattered, and; he was sfiot in four places in. the body. We all reckoned he should have got the V.C."