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On saturday t April 2015 on the 100th Anniversary of our landings at Gallipoli I attended the ANZAC Day Dawn Service at the Nairobi Kenya War Gaves Cemetery, hosted by the Australian High Commissioner to East Africa. There were some 400+ in attendance from the diplomatic corps, Kenyan Government as well as expats . Acting Sub Lieutenant Arthur George THOMPSON was shown as one of the twenty three Australian & New Zealand war dead buried in Kenyan soil. As a retired naval man and a military historial & official battlefield guide of our past conflicts I took it upon myself to research the three navy types that never returned home. Two ex Royal Australian navy. The "Sub" as we ex "pusser" types refer to such young officers and two Australian Naval personnel lie in the CWGC Cemetery in Mombasa Kenya, so far from their homelands, it's so sad that their loved ones can't drop in and say hello. S
Public - Dennis John - 5 May 2015