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    • Source: Tom Skeyhill
    • Thomas John Skeyhill (1895ā€“1932) was born in 1895 to Annie and James Percy Skeyhill in Terang, Victoria. He was a signaler in the Australian Army in World War I. On 8 May 1915, during the advance at Cape Helles, he was blinded by an exploding Turkish shell; his sight was successfully restored in 1918. He ghostwrote an account about Alvin York, which was later made into a movie of the same name in 1941. He was killed in a plane crash at Barnstable Municipal Airport and was buried with military honors in West Dennis, Massachusetts, where he had a summer home.


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      Brownrigg, Jeff (September 2007). "From Anzac Cove to Hollywood : Alvin C. York's role in the career of Tom Skeyhill". National Library of Australia News. 17 (12): 7ā€“10. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012.

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