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Arthur Blackburn

• ... that... Arthur Blackburn accepted the Vichy French surrender of Damascus in June 1941? Source: Blackburn, Arthur Seaforth (1892–1960) (Australian Dictionary of Biography)
  • ALT1:... that... Arthur Blackburn was the first South Australian to be awarded the Victoria CrossinWorld War I?Source: Lock, Cecil (1936). The Fighting 10th: A South Australian Centenary Souvenir of the 10th Battalion, A.I.F. 1914–19. p. 163

• Reviewed: Privy Council of the Kingdom of Hawaii

Improved to Good Article status by Peacemaker67 (talk). Self-nominated at 22:09, 3 January 2019 (UTC).

• HiPeacemaker67, review follows: Article promoted to GA on 3 January; article is of good length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; no overly close paraphrasing noticed; hooks are both interesting and mentioned in the article; Damascus hook checks out to the Australian DNB, VC hook is cited to an offline book which I am happy to AGF on; image looks to be appropriately licensed (the AWM collections are down for me at the moment but I am happy to presume it states "public domain", most of their stuff does); QPQ has been done. Looks good to me - Dumelow (talk) 08:08, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks, Dumelow! Yes, the image page at the AWM states "Copyright expired - public domain". Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:21, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the confirmation Peacemaker67, I currently just get a "technical difficulties" message from the AWM page - Dumelow (talk) 08:33, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

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