Corporal T. Upton, M. M., in a lette* to his father, Mr T. Upton, of Lithgow, Now South Wales, states, that during theii advance the Australians came upon a dead German officer in a collar, but when, -with a- view to giving the corpse a decent burial, four of our men attempted to lift it, a tearifio explosion occurred, and the four Australians were blown to pieces. The enemy had attached a bomb to the dead office*.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3384, 22 January 1919, Page 53
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