Fragments of the First AIF

Lieut Penistan James Patterson

Meleah Hampton Season 3 Episode 18

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Penistan Patterson, a young man from Swan Hill, Vic, and Port Pirie, SA, was one of Australia's first staff cadets at the Royal Military College Duntroon. And then he became the first graduated student to be killed in action during the First World War.

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