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  • Chapter 2 - The reciprocity principle

  • Aaron Pegram, Australian War Memorial
  • Book:
    Surviving the Great War
    Published online:
    12 November 2019
    Print publication:
    12 November 2019, pp 40-65

  • Summary

    Not all captured Australians survived the tumult of battle. After the 7th Brigade’s failed attack on the Windmill at Pozières on 28 July 1916, a German officer approached an Australian Lewis gunner nursing a bullet wound to his leg. ‘You are the Machine Gunner?’ asked the officer. ‘Yes, sir,’ the man replied. Without hesitation, the officer drew his automatic pistol and shot the man through the heart and the head, killing him instantly. ‘That’s the way to deal with English swine.’