LOYAL AUSTRALIANS
RIFLEMEN AND EMPIRE. (Sun Special.) LONDON, July 26. A dramatic episode occurred at the dinner of the National Rifle Association, tendered to the members of the teams who had been firing in the Empire match at Bisley.
The Australian team stood up and saluted the Empire in military fashion after Captain Blacklow’s statement that if Britain were in trouble to-morrow, Australians would “swarm the heights of Dover” xi defence of the Empire,
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Southland Times, Issue 19311, 1 August 1924, Page 5
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