Talk:Bernard Sidney Gordon

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His medal is to be auctioned according to ABC news story. Note our record of the citation and the ABC news text do not match. ABC states Doug Formby of the RSL says Lance Corporal Gordon seized a machine gun post and an entire trench, capturing 40 enemy soldiers, all on his own. "He then single-handedly went to the next set of trenches and he captured a further 22 prisoners and three machine guns," he said. --Golden Wattle talk 19:37, 24 November 2006 (UTC)