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Hell of a time : an Australian soldier's diary of the Great War by Philip Owen Ayton [Ayton, Philip Owen] is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Edited by Elvala Ayton</p> <p>Philip Owen Ayton was working on the Sydney tramways when the call to join the fight against Germany came. Keen for action, he found himself in the First Field Company Engineers in the First Division of the Australian Imperial Forces.</p> <p>Shipped to Egypt, Ayton soon after took part in the Gallipoli landing. ‘I would not have missed this for anything,’ he wrote to a friend. Badly injured, he was sent to England to convalesce and from there joined the campaign
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- Author
- Philip Owen Ayton [Ayton, Philip Owen]
- Publisher
- The Text Publishing Company
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781925773422
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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