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SHARPSHOOTERS: ABDUL THE TERRIBLE / BILL SING
There are two important snipers of the Gallipoli War. William Edward Sing of the Austrians and the terrible Abdül of the Ottomans (Bill Sing). They were great manhunters. They made a choice and always shot the highest ranking officer. They were great masters of camouflage. They would stand still for hours, sometimes more than a day, waiting for the person they were going to kill to enter their target.
The sniper Abdul
Moseley, the great British physicist, was cut off from the world of science by a bullet from the terrible Abdul. These two snipers always tried to shoot each other and made a manhunt on the Gallipoli Peninsula that will be the subject of films. By looking at the bullet hole in the wound of a soldier shot by Bill, Abdul calculated the angle from which the bullet came and determined the point where Bill fired.
William Edward Sing (Bill Sing)
He pointed his rifle at this point and stood still for two days, firing and wounding Bill Sing in the shoulder. When Bill recovered, he returned to the front and tracked down Abdul and took his revenge by shooting him fatally. Ultimately, Ottoman Abdul was killed in action, his grave unknown. Bill returned to Australia and died in poverty in an orphanage. If these two heroic snipers ever met in the sky, they must have told each other a lot about the Gallipoli countryside.