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In the early morning of 9th August the enemy made a determined counter-attack on a newly-captured trench held by Lieutenant Tubb, Corporals Burton, Dunstan and a few men. They advanced up a trench and blew in a sandbag barricade, but Tubb and the two corporals repulsed the enemy and rebuilt the barricade. Strong enemy bombing parties twice again succeeded in blowing in the barricade, but on each occasion the enemy were repulsed and the barricade rebuilt, although Tubb was wounded and Corporal Burton killed while most gallantly building up the parapet under a hail of bombs. ^[2]

OBITUARY

Intense regret was expressed yesterday afternoon when news went round that a message had been received by the Rev. J. Garde, Euroa, instructing him to inform Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Burton of the death of their son, Corporal Alex. Burton, in the Gallipoli fighting.

Corporal Burton for some time after reaching Egypt was. incapacitated ,by sickness, but on re