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Saving lives: On Feb. 20, Valley Catholic Middle School students joined representatives of Tigard Police and Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue to teach hands-only CPR.
Air Force One landing at Elmendorf today at about 12:50pm. This is "29000" and was here for about two hours.
Added note: He's about 6,500 feet away from me give or take. About a mile and a half.
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Private Patrick Bugden, V.C, 3774, 31st Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment,
was born in South Gundurimba, New South Wales, on 17/03/1897.
Son of Thomas and Annie Bugden, of "Hotel Wells," Tweed Heads, New South Wales.
He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at Brisbane on 25/05/1916 claiming to be 21 years old. After completing a period of basic training, he embarked for England in September 1916 and arrived in Plymouth in December.
Patrick was sent to France in January 1917 and taken on strength by the 31st Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment in March 1917. In May 1917, he was admitted to hospital with influenza, before being released and returning to his unit.
At Battle of Polygon Wood near Zonnebeke in Belgium, during the Passchendaele Offensive, Bugden performed the actions that led to his posthumous award of the Victoria Cross. During an advance by his battalion at Polygon Wood, he led small parties against strongly defended pillboxes, successfully dealing with them. He later carried out a number of rescues of wounded men (at least 5), often under heavy artillery and machine gun fire. During one of these rescue missions he was killed in action, and was later recommended for the VC; the citation, published in the London Gazette, read:
"For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty when, on two occasions, our advance was temporarily held up by strongly defended "pill boxes". Private Bugden, in the face of devastating fire from machine guns, gallantly led small parties to attack these strong points, and, successfully silencing the machine guns with bombs, captured the garrison at the point of the bayonet. On another occasion, when a Corporal, who had become detached from his company, had been captured and was being taken to the rear by the enemy, Private Bugden, single handed, rushed to the rescue of his comrade, shot one enemy, and bayonetted the remaining two, thus releasing the Corporal. On five occasions, he rescued wounded men under intense shell and machine gun fire, showing an utter contempt and disregard for danger. Always foremost in volunteering for any dangerous mission, it was during the execution of one of these missions that this gallant soldier was killed."
— The London Gazette, 23 November 1917[3]
Private Patric Budgen was laid to rest near Verbeek Farm, south west of Polygon Wood (Sheet 28. J.14.b.7.5 see link below) He's was 20 years old.
After the war, on 10/04/1919, Patrick's body was exhumed and moved to Hooge Crater Cemetery, grave VIII.C.5.
Original burial maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=50....
Saving lives: On Feb. 20, Valley Catholic Middle School students joined representatives of Tigard Police and Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue to teach hands-only CPR.
Saving lives: On Feb. 20, Valley Catholic Middle School students joined representatives of Tigard Police and Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue to teach hands-only CPR.
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SDASM.TITLE: Convair C-131D VC-131D
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