Soldiers of the 21 Inf Bn searching the village of Hamel for
survivors, July 1918 (Australian War Memorial Collection E02666)
Private John Dalglish arrived in France in February 1917 to reinforce the 21 Infantry Battalion, AIF, and from that time forward, apart from periods in hospital or on leave, was involved in very heavy fighting. In July the Australian took the village of Hamel (or what survived of it) from the Germans in ninety-three minutes. Rod Martin tells of this and other battles which Dalglish survived, only to succumb to broncho-pneumonian in December 1918, not long after the Armistice. Read his story here.
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