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could enjoy back home"). Instead, their horse would either be shot (with its shoes, and mane and tail cut off, because "iron and horsehair were salable") and, after having been shot, would be skinned and its hide sold for leather, or would it be sold locally — and would, no doubt, be very "cruelly
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The single work of "Trooper
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Australian Troops taking part in the Burial Ceremony for Major Oliver Hogue ("Trooper Bluegum"), 14th Australian Light Horse Regiment, on the day of his Burial in London (8 March 1919), collection of the
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in Sydney, and was active in shooting and equestrianism. In his youth, Hogue was also an avid cyclist who logged thousands of miles cycling across the country's eastern and northern coasts.
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Aside from his numerous newspaper articles as both civilian and soldier, he wrote four books:
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