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CELEBRATES 40TH IN STYLE! PAGES 24-26 Wednesday, 20 April 2016
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War’s broken heart By GARRY HOWE THE second telegram killed her. Three of Margaret Bryan’s six sons enlisted in the Great War and two did not return. She lost one only months into Australia’s first campaign at Gallipoli, when Edmund Thomas ‘Tom’ Bryan was killed in action at Lone Pine. When the knock on the door came three years later to inform her another son, Edward John Bryan, had succumbed to illness and died in a Cairo hospital, it was all too much. Margaret Bryan collapsed when she heard the news, did not regain consciousness and died 15 days later of a broken heart.
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It is 75 years ago this month that the famed Rats of Tobruk began that decisive World War II battle to wrest control of the Libyan port from Hitler’s Afrika Korps. Pakenham RSL members Harry Crick and Norm Joseph this week reflected on that campaign with Gazette reporter Aneeka Simonis. Harry was a ‘Rat’ and Norm would later serve in the same battalion. See their story on pages 12-13.
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