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24 April, 2026
Our Youngest ANZAC
He should have been home in Tocumwal in New South Wales playing football or cricket with his mates but fourteen years old James Charles Martin found himself in the deadly trenches of Gallipoli in 1915. What and why was a fourteen year old country boy doing in a man’s war?

Fourteen year old James (Jim) Martin with his family. Hopefully this ANZAC story will never be repeated.
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