Summary: <p>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. </p> <p>--- Buy the Podcast a Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/iwasonlydoingmyjobpodcast Join our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/IWODMJ ---</p> <p>Linktree </p> <p>https://linktr.ee/iwodmj</p> <p>For Show Notes, transcripts and photos check out the I Was Only Doing My Job Website at www.thedocnetwork.net Access to the Discord Server https://discord.gg/v3Vpb9Fhsj Find the Podcast on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/IWODMJ Twitter https://twitter.com/iwodmj Instagram https://www.instagram.com/iwodmj Mastodon https://mastodonbooks.net/@IWODMJ/ YouTube https://youtube.com/@iwasonlydoingmyjobpodcast</p> <p> </p> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/iwasonlydoingmyjob/message
