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c. 1918.
Informal outdoors portrait of Private (Pte) George Cartwright VC, 33rd
Battalion.
Pte Cartwright was
awarded the Victoria Cross for "most conspicuous bravery" on
31 August 1918 at Road Wood, France.
Pte Cartwright attacked
an enemy machine gun that had held up two allied companies.
He shot
three of the team, bombed the post and captured the gun and nine
prisoners.
He was wounded in
September 1918 and was hospitalised, returning to Australia in March
1919 where he was discharged on 1 July, later serving in the Citizen
Military Forces.
(Donor R. Arman)
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