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Great effort and supreme sacrifice

05/05/2008

CRANBOURNE Secondary College students laid a wreath and stopped to remember the efforts by Australian men and women during the World War I battle on the beaches of Gallipoli.
The mid-morning service, held last Thursday, also recognised the ultimate sacrifice made by about 8500 Australian soldiers during eight tortuous months spent on the Turkish peninsula.

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