Sergeant William Charles Bullock Beech: The Inventor of the Periscope Rifle

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I Was Only Doing My Job: Australia's Military History

Ross Manuel

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"I Was Only Doing My Job" is a fortnightly (Bi-weekly) Australian Military History podcast hosted by Ross Manuel. Instead of focusing on maps and dates, each episode is devoted to chronicling Australia's Military History through the individual stories of those who served; where they grew up, what they did, and invariably what happened to them.

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Sergeant William Charles Bullock Beech: The Inventor of the Periscope Rifle

I Was Only Doing My Job: Australia's Military History

21 minutes 56 seconds

1 year ago

Sergeant William Charles Bullock Beech: The Inventor of the Periscope Rifle

19-MAY-1915. While serving as a soldier of the 2nd Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force during the First World War, Sergeant William Charles Bullock Beech, horrified by the tragic loss of life of his comrades on Gallipoli, took a biscuit box, signal wire and a broken mirror to invent one of the most iconic weapons of trench warfare on Gallipoli, the Periscope Rifle.

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