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Rare original Gallipoli field service postcard Sent and signed…
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Sydney
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23-Apr-2010
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Rare original Gallipoli field service postcard Sent and signed by Lieutenant Frederick Harold Tubb VC 7th Battalion AIF, Tubb was one of the 7 Victoria cross winners at Lone pine and later died in Belgium after being hit by a German sniper and struck by artillery shells, Tubb's VC citation reads, for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty at Lone pine trenches, in the Gallipoli Peninsula, on 9th August, 1915, in the early morning the enemy made a determined counter attack on the centre of the newly captured trench held by Lieutenant Tubb, they advanced up a sap and blew in a sandbag barricade, leaving only one foot of it standing, but Lieutenant Tubb led his men back, repulsed the enemy, and rebuilt the barricade, supported by strong bombing parties, the enemy succeeded in twice again blowing in the barricade, but on each occasion Lieutenant Tubb, although wounded in the head and arm, held his ground with the greatest coolness and rebuilt it, and finally succeeded in maintaining his position under very heavy bomb fire
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Militaria & Weapons: Ephemera