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Individual Tributes |
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| Although the
AIF & the NZEF were collectively viewed as 1 large body they were in
fact made up of hundreds of thousands of individuals.
It was the individualism of the citizen soldiers from the Antipodes that set them apart from the soldiers of the more rigidly controlled European armies. While it is impossible to list them all here I can offer these men as fitting representatives of the whole. The item to note here is not that they were "special", although they must have been, nor that they were 'heroes", although they were. The really wonderful thing about these blokes is that they were ordinary. Just ordinary Aussies, put into extra-ordinary circumstances who responded in a way that changed the history of the world. |
