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GAINED AGAINST THE BOLSHEVISTS. By Telesraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrleht. Received Oct. 12, 11.5 p.m. London, Oct. 11. The Australian 'Press Association interviewed the, Australian solder Sullivan, who gained the VC. He is at a repatriation camp at Winchester. He modestly and unassumingly made light of his exploit. He said: "It was not much to taJk about. I was lucky because several office*s were looking on. We had been out capturing three villages on the Dvina and were returning through a forest. The Bolshies ambushed us when we were crossing a swamp by narrow planks. Tltey turned machine guns on us pretty hotly. Some men and also an officer fell off the planks into the thick slimy swamp in which it was impossible to swim or wade. I jumped into the slime up to the shoul(|erß and helped the officer and four men to regain the planki That is all there was to it."—Aus.-X.Z. Cable Assn. ■
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1919, Page 5
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