Gloom is cast pver the Australian (Contingent's Corgnation visit by the sad accident which has resulted in {the death of Gunner Perey Sullivan, 2 gallant holder of the Victoria Cross. The sardonic ways of fate thus illustrated, irrestibly call to. mind that tale by "Sapper" depicting the breathless exploits of a war-time hero who had risked death on the Western [Front hundreds of times only to fall 2 victim. on demobilization to the perils of the orange peel on which his oot slipped ina London street. Gunner Sullivan subjected to what seemed to be nothing more serious {than the onslaughts of his admirers In search of hig autograph, reckoned without the dangers of modern street trafic, A. passing cyclist—presumably on a motor-bicyele—caught him fas he inadvertently stepped from the security of the pavement to the Toad way. It is a pathetic tragedy, render fed all the more poignant' by the /cnowledge of the mission from which Gunner Sullivan had just returned in faking to Liverpool the ashes of another Australian V. C.
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