Tho record for persistency and consistency in volunteering- for active service must surely be held by Trooper William B.issetts of Wellington (N.S.W.). who was rejected 19 times before be succeeded ; n passins: the doctor. According to the Sunday Times (Sydney). Bassett has now been two years in the field with the Australian Expeditionary Force, And has come throutr'i scathless. without even a wound or a day's illness. Ho is serving in Palestine, and his father was recently advised that Basset* had been awarded the Military Medal.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3332, 23 January 1918, Page 51
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86Page 51 Advertisements Column 4 Otago Witness, Issue 3332, 23 January 1918, Page 51
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