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...most influential people. Here, our focus is on Australians who live away from the big cities and reveal other facets of the nation's character. Tom Dusevic met Peter Burton, who turns grass into T-bones in the Kimberley; Elizabeth Keenan visited the kitchen of Warrant Officer John Benstead, 22 years an Army cook and now based in Townsville; Michael Fitzgerald tracked down Doug Pekin, a dogger who maintains 500 km of dingo-proof fence on the Nullarbor; Daniel Williams joined hands at a Sunday service with the dwindling faithful of Darnum, Victoria; and Rory Callinan met the crocodile-shooting...
...what police described as "one of the most ghastly murders yet," the unclothed body of Patrick Benstead, a 32-year-old Catholic from Belfast's East End, was found dumped in an alleyway. He had been tied up, beaten, shot and branded with the letters "I.R.A." Within hours, in what police assumed was an act of reprisal, a middle-aged Protestant in the same district was shot through the head. Appalled at the rising wave of murders, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, set up a special army and police task force to track...
RETREAT-C. R. Benstead-Century...
...throw a beam of flattering light on army chaplains, the book has been praised by no less a churchman than gloomy Dean Inge, of London's St. Paul's Cathedral. Said he: "One of the best and most original of the new war books." Author C. R. Benstead, 33, 6 ft., 5 in., entered the War as a private, won a commission in the Gunners. He served at the Somme, the Ancre, Vimy Ridge, Arras, Passchendaele, was with the Fifth Army in the near-disastrous spring of 1918 his book tells about. He was mentioned in despatches, decorated...