Anzac 100: Sniper duel between Australia's Billy Sing and 'Abdul the Terrible'

By Tim Barlass
Updated April 23 2015 - 9:18pm, first published 9:02pm
Billy Sing of the 5th Light Horse (left) in Egypt, 1915, before embarking for Gallipoli. With him is Lieutenant-General Sir William Riddell Birdwood (right), and an unknown soldier at centre. Photo: Australian War Memorial
Billy Sing of the 5th Light Horse (left) in Egypt, 1915, before embarking for Gallipoli. With him is Lieutenant-General Sir William Riddell Birdwood (right), and an unknown soldier at centre. Photo: Australian War Memorial
Billy Sing: born in 1886 to an English mother and Chinese father. He and his two sisters were brought up in Clermont and Proserpine, in rural Queensland.  Photo: Australian War Memorial
Billy Sing: born in 1886 to an English mother and Chinese father. He and his two sisters were brought up in Clermont and Proserpine, in rural Queensland. Photo: Australian War Memorial

American Sniper has nothing on a Gallipoli story from a century ago that is also worthy of a movie.

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