He had already been promoted to the highest rank possible for a non-upper class man, Sergeant, and eventually was shot in the head trying to retrieve one of his boys that was wounded, but I suppose he needed to be more important to be thanked.
His record can be found in our national archives naa.gov.au
It is really something to see the digital copy of the document.
ReplyDeleteYes indeed, they've done a splendid job of preserving documents from that time and making them available to all to peruse, not just the important people.
ReplyDeleteI spent some time fruitlessly looking into his mate Charlie Cavenagh, but found plenty of other tales doing it.