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THE GORDONS AMBUSHED.
A GALLANT CHARGE.
Received 5-5 p.m., July 4. LONDON, July 4
Some of the Gordons suffered heavily when taking Mametz. They were advancing in the open with sloped arms because there was not a rifle shot from the broken trenches. Suddenly a machine-gun, fired pointbJank, caught the Gordons in tile face. The men > at the double, dasheo forward amid a hail of bullets. Many dropped, but Mametz was taken with the bayonet and held.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 156, 5 July 1916, Page 5
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77THE GORDONS AMBUSHED. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 156, 5 July 1916, Page 5
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