Captain Hugo Throssell V.C - Greenmount , Western Australia
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S 31° 54.027 E 116° 03.265
50J E 410586 N 6470208
A stone pavilion erected in honour of a Victoria Cross winner
Waymark Code: WMNJDN
Location: Western Australia, Australia
Date Posted: 03/23/2015
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The Hugo Throssell pavilion is located on the corner of Great Eastern Hwy and Old York Rd , Greenmount, opposite the property in which he lived .
On 29 August 1915 the 10th Light Horse went into action to take a long trench, of which 100 yards was held by Turkish troops on the summit of Hill 60 at Gallipoli.Throssell killed five Turks while his men constructed a barricade across their part of the trench. When a fierce bomb fight began, Throssell and his soldiers held their bombs on short fuse until the last possible moment before hurling them at the enemy on the other side of the barricade.
Throssell, who at one stage was in sole command, was wounded twice. His face covered in blood from bomb splinters in his forehead, he repeatedly yelled encouragement to his men.
For his part in the battle Hugo Throssell was awarded the Victoria Cross (V.C.). It was the first V.C. to be received by a Western Australian in the war.
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