Anzac Day hero Ted Larkin - the politician, soldier and athlete who died at Gallipoli

By Roy Masters
Updated April 24 2015 - 10:08pm, first published 8:00pm
Sergeant Ted Larkin, Lieutenant-Colonel George  Braund and Lieutenant-Colonel John Nash. Sergeant Larkin and  Colonel Braund were killed at Gallipoli.   Photo: Courtesy of Australian War Memorial
Sergeant Ted Larkin, Lieutenant-Colonel George Braund and Lieutenant-Colonel John Nash. Sergeant Larkin and Colonel Braund were killed at Gallipoli. Photo: Courtesy of Australian War Memorial

"There exist only three beings worthy of respect," wrote the 19th-century French poet, Charles Baudelaire, "the priest, the soldier, the poet".

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