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The scrub on Lone Pine was so thick that the men of Fethers’ company had been lost to view before Saker’s company went over the crest.  Like Saker, Fethers, finding no firing line had advanced his company through the scrub in search of one.  He was a young Victorian accountant, a man of high ideals and well beloved by his men.  He had led his company some 200 yards beyond the crest, when he fell dead, shot by a sniper.  But the company went on.  Part of it under Lieutenant Ross took a northerly direction onto Johnston’s Jolly, and though Ross was hit, his men eventually, under some unknown officer, lined the edge of Wire Gully.

The Official History of Australia in the war of 1914 – 1918.  The Story of Anzac.  Volume 1.  C. E. W. Bean.  University of Queensland Press, page 389. (source 1)

Of the third company of the 5th Battalion – Flockhart’s – a portion, in moving on to the Jolly, came upon the body of Flockhart’s bosom companion, Major Fethers.  Flockhart dropped down beside it and covered his friend’s face with his cap.

The Official History of Australia in the war of 1914 – 1918.  The Story of Anzac.  Volume 1.  C. E. W. Bean.  University of Queensland Press, page 390. (source 1)