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Battle of Broken Hill

This wagon marks the site where two Turkish sympathisers attacked a picnic train just leaving Broken Hill bound for Silverton on Jan 1st 1915. A total of 6 were killed (including the attackers) and 7 wounded. These were the only hostilities on Australian soil during WW1.

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Uploaded on December 31, 2015
Taken on August 28, 2015