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16 November 1915

By November 16, 2015No Comments
Lieutenant Commander Bracegirdle (front centre) with fellow officers of the 1st Royal Australian Navy Bridging Train, Egypt, 1916. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.

Lieutenant Commander Bracegirdle (front centre) with fellow officers of the 1st Royal Australian Navy Bridging Train, Egypt, 1916. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.

  • Day 480 of the war
  • Lieutenant Commander Leighton Seymour Bracegirdle pays tribute to the RAN Bridging Train at Gallipoli, declaring:

‘These men took pride in the fact they were the only Australian naval unit serving in the European theatre of war’.

  • Babuna Pass and Prilep in Southern Serbia are taken by Bulgarian forces