Anzac N T Svensen b Larvik, Norway

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On the declivity beside several dugouts was a heap of spoil, and above it the mouth of a tunnel. into which Corporal Tickner fired, but without drawing a reply. According to one account, after the valley had been cleared of Turks and picqueted, a messenger reached Armstrong warning him that he was too far advanced. At all events he reassembled his party and returned to the Australian line. The raid had no doubt crushed the enemy’s local defence system upon that flank of Quinn’s. The Queenslanders had lost few men, and eventually, reinforced by some of Lieutenant Svensen’s 34 men from the right trench of Quinn’s, helped to garrison its proper section of the new line, while Svensen strung out other men across No-Man’s Land to dig a communication trench from the right of Quinn’s to the captured position.

34 Lieut. N T Svensen, 15th Bn Draughtsman, of South Brisbane, b Larvik, Norway, 17 Sept , 1878.