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The ‘Great’ Emu War: H/Brig Gen Gwynydd Purves Wynne-Aubrey Meredith Part Two

Posted on January 15, 2022 By Docwinters No Comments on The ‘Great’ Emu War: H/Brig Gen Gwynydd Purves Wynne-Aubrey Meredith Part Two
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2-NOVEMBER-1932.  While serving as a professional soldier in the post-war Permanent  Military Force of the Commonwealth Military Forces Honourary Brigadier  General Gwynydd Purves Wynne-Aubrey Meredith served for 47 years  continuously, and in doing so served in the Permanent Military Force,  the First World War, the Second War and the Korean War, but he is most  known as Major G P W Meredith, the Officer Commanding of the 7th Heavy  Artillery Battery who oversaw an ill-advised nuisance wildlife  management military operation that has become more a meme than a  historical event, known comically as the Great Emu War

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