Arthur Blackburn

Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn, Victoria Cross for Australia">VC, CMG, CBE, ED, JP (25 Nuwamba 1892 - 24 Nuwamba 1960) ya kasance sojan Australiya, lauya, ɗan siyasa, kuma mai karɓa Victoria Cross (VC), babbar lambar yabo don jaruntaka a yaƙi da za a iya ba wa memba na Sojojin Australiya a lokacin. Lauyan lauya kuma soja na ɗan lokaci kafin barkewar Yaƙin Duniya na I, Blackburn ya shiga cikin Sojojin Daular Australiya a watan Agustan shekara ta 1914, kuma an sanya shi a cikin 10th Battalion. Rukuninsa ya sauka a Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, a ranar 25 ga Afrilu, 1915, kuma an yaba shi da wani ɗan leƙen asiri tare da ci gaba da zurfi a cikin ƙasa a ranar saukowa. Daga baya aka ba Blackburn umurni kuma, tare da rundunarsa, sun kwashe sauran yakin Gallipoli suna fada da sojojin Ottoman.

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Arthur Seaforth Blackburn a ranar 25 ga Nuwamba 1892 a Woodville, Colony na Kudancin Australia . Shi ne ƙarami na Thomas Blackburn, wani Anglican Canon kuma entomologist, da matarsa ta biyu, Margaret Harriette Stewart, née Browne .  Arthur ya fara karatu a makarantar Pulteney Grammar School. Mahaifiyarsa ta mutu a shekara ta 1904 tana da shekaru 40. Ya yi karatu a Kwalejin St Peter, Adelaide daga 1906-1909 sannan ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Adelaide, inda ya kammala karatun digiri na farko a 1913, bayan ya yi magana da C. B. Hardy. A lokacin da Blackburn ya kasance a matsayin magatakarda, a wani lokaci maza biyu suka kai wa Hardy hari a kan titi, kuma duk da karamin gininsa, Blackburn ya shiga tsakani ya kore su. A cikin 1911, an gabatar da horo na soja na tilas, kuma Arthur ya shiga Kudancin Australia Scottish Regiment of the Citizen Military Forces (CMF).  An kira shi zuwa mashaya a ranar 13 ga Disamba 1913 .   ɗan'uwa, Charles Blackburn, ya zama fitaccen likita na Sydney, ya yi aiki a cikin Sojojin Kiwon Lafiya na Australiya a Yaƙin Duniya na I, kuma daga baya ya zama Shugaba na Jami'ar Sydney. Mahaifin su ya mutu a shekara ta 1912.  A lokacin barkewar Yaƙin Duniya na I, Arthur yana aiki a matsayin lauya a Adelaide tare da kamfanin Nesbit da Nesbit, kuma har yanzu yana aiki a cikin CMF.

 Yaƙin Duniya na I 

 Gallipoli 
A ranar 19 ga watan Agustan shekara ta 1914,   yana da shekaru 21, Blackburn ya shiga cikin rundunar sojin Australiya (AIF) kuma an sanya shi a cikin 10th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division. Battalion na 10 ya sami horo na farko a Morphettville a Adelaide, Kudancin Australia, kafin ya fara SS Ascanius a kusa da Outer Harbor a ranar 20 ga Oktoba. Tafiya ta hanyar Fremantle da Colombo a Ceylon, sirri ya isa Alexandria, Misira, a ranar 6 ga Disamba. Sojojin sun shiga sansanin kusa da Alkahira. Sun horar da su a can har zuwa 28 ga Fabrairu 1915, lokacin da suka koma Alexandria. Sun tashi a kan SS Ionian a ranar 1 ga Maris kuma bayan 'yan kwanaki sun isa tashar jiragen ruwa ta Mudros a tsibirin Girka na Lemnos a arewa maso gabashin Tekun Aegean, inda suka kasance a cikin jirgi na makonni bakwai masu zuwa.

 Manazarta 
Rukuni:Mutuwan 1960