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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 20, 1915
Page
7
Melbourne report summarizes a Defence Department casualty list of 10 officers and 203 other ranks. It enumerates killed in action 1, died of wounds 1, wounded 3, severely wounded 1, injured 1, prisoner of war 1, illness deaths 7, wounded 7, severely wounded 1, and other statuses totaling 213.
A fragmented wartime list records multiple soldiers listed as Killed in Action or Died of Wounds. Names include Corpral P.curms, Private J. Jower, and Private RK. Several units and locations appear, with references to Light Horse, Army Ordnance, and various towns such as Bendigo, Ballarat, and Moorabbin. The garbled OCR preserves a broad roster style memorial of service and losses.
A weekly pig sale penned 744 hogs with strong demand and higher prices. High quality fat pigs fetched top rates and store pigs sold briskly, with weights and breeds shown in detail. Next sale set for Monday November 1 with bacon pigs first on the agenda.
A Birregurra sale drew metropolitan Geelong and district buyers with full yarding from station owners and breeders. The sale produced four substantial clearances for vendors including J F Armytage Kildean Winchelsea and M McCallum Birregurra with prices listing draught fillies geldings and mares ranging from £5 to £37 10s across multiple accounts and horse ages.
OCR fragment shows unclear text with phrases like wat dots ber for pers Shown aon Dis Ring 'Phous 23. The incomplete lines offer little verifiable detail beyond a cryptic reference to a date or item. No identifiable people organizations or places are discernible.
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