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Friday 02 Jul 1915
The Battle of Gully Ravine began at 1045 hours on 28 June 1915 and became the scene of vicious and bloody fighting as the Turks began a series of counterattacks on the night of 1–2 July. Two soldiers of the 1st Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Captain Gerald O'Sullivan and Serjeant James Somers, were awarded the Victoria Cross for recapturing a trench taken by the Turks during a counter-attack.
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Friday 02 Jul 1915
The Battle of Gully Ravine began at 1045 hours on 28 June 1915 and became the scene of vicious and bloody fighting as the Turks began a series of counterattacks on the night of 1–2 July. Two soldiers of the 1st Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Captain Gerald O'Sullivan and Serjeant James Somers, were awarded the Victoria Cross for recapturing a trench taken by the Turks during a counter-attack.
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02 July
Friday 02 Jul 1915
The Battle of Gully Ravine began at 1045 hours on 28 June 1915 and became the scene of vicious and bloody fighting as the Turks began a series of counterattacks on the night of 1–2 July. Two soldiers of the 1st Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Captain Gerald O'Sullivan and Serjeant James Somers, were awarded the Victoria Cross for recapturing a trench taken by the Turks during a counter-attack.
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