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Gallipoli telegram

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Gallipoli telegram

Telegraph message dated 9 June 1915 stating that Morris Connington Brown has been killed in action. 

Morris Brown was a corporal in the Otago Infantry Battalion. He was killed at Gallipoli in early May 1915 during an unsuccessful attempt to enlarge the Anzac perimeter by capturing a key hill known as Baby 700 from the Ottoman Turks.

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Puke Ariki
Ref: ARC2009-350

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Gallipoli telegram, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/gallipoli-telegraph, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated