Hugh to retrace hero dad's footsteps 100 years on

April 9 2014 - 4:00am

ONE hundred years after his father landed at Anzac Cove under a hail of bullets, Hugh Belling will arrive under very different circumstances. The 91-year-old Gunnedah man was “elated” to learn last week he had secured two tickets in a national ballot to attend next year’s centenary dawn service at Gallipoli. It will be the World War II veteran’s first visit to the site of Australia’s most celebrated and mythologised – albeit ill-fated – military operation.

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