Alfred Shout (1882–1915) was a New Zealand–born soldier and
posthumous Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest
decoration for combat gallantry awarded to members of the British and
Commonwealth armed forces. It was bestowed for his actions at Lone Pine
in August 1915, during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War.
Born in Wellington, Shout had served in the Second Boer War, where he
was mentioned in despatches. He immigrated to Sydney in 1907 and was
active in the part-time Citizens Forces. In August 1914, he joined the
Australian Imperial Force and was appointed a lieutenant in the 1st
Battalion. He took part in the Anzac landings at Gallipoli on 25 April
1915. For his leadership during the invasion, Shout was awarded the
Military Cross and later mentioned in despatches. Shout's three
gallantry awards at Gallipoli made him the most highly decorated member
of the Australian force in the campaign.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Shout>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1915:
First World War: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
landed at Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape
Helles to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the
Ottoman Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_campaign>
1960:
The U.S. Navy submarine Triton completed the first submerged
circumnavigation of the world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sandblast>
1983:
The first issue of The Jakarta Post was published in Indonesia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jakarta_Post>
2015:
Nepal was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, killing more
than 8,000 people, including 22 from avalanches on Mount Everest.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Mount_Everest_avalanches>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
zambuk:
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A St. John Ambulance first-aider,
especially at a sports event. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zambuk>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don't believe that it can end. Now that I've seen what war is,
what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end,
ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are
they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does
it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for
them is the war really over.
--Cesare Pavese
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesare_Pavese>