William “Billy” Sing was born in 1886 to an English mother and Chinese father. He grew up on a farm in rural Queensland with his two sisters. The towns he grew up in were Clermont and Proserpine in rural North Queensland. Life on the land was tough but Billy was courageous and spent most of his life helping his parents with jobs on the farm especially delivering milk and gardening. He was a skilled horse rider and talented at shooting. He was an excellent sniper, the three main topics of Billy 's life are the following:His before military career, His military career and After military career. Billy and his siblings grew up in Clermont and Proserpine in Central Western Queensland.As Billy was growing up he learnt many basic life skills early …show more content…
However, it is believed that number was more likely to be around 300 kills. “Billy Sing is like modern rockstar. Everyone in ANZAC knows him. In fact several Generals and even an Admiral go up to the frontline to watch him shoot” Squadron Leader Hugh Dolan. Billy 's biggest battle was the Turkish sniper known only to the Aussies as “Abdul the terrible”. Whilst Sing was sniping he had a spotter. The people that were usually his spotters were Ion Idriess or Tom Sheehan. One bullet fired from the Turkish side was destined for Billy and it hit him by going through Tom Sheehans telescope, mouth, cheek and hand before hitting billy in the shoulder. But it was Billy who shot and killed Abdul. Both the snipers had locked on to each other and a single pull of the trigger could end one mans life. In the end Billy was a split second faster and his bullet that was to make its way to Abdul hit the target, he had just won a personal battle against the crack shot Turkish sniper. He showed courage even after being shot to get revenge on the man that shot him, when Abdul was shot the Aussies felt safer because they weren 't being shot as an enemy sniper as
An unknown author once said, “All the hard work, all the sacrifices, all the sleepless nights, struggles, downfalls, it all pays off.” When the author said this quote, they meant that if you have a goal in life and you are trying to catch your dream. Your hardwork will pay off if you work for it. Never give up even if you are struggling it will pay off. In the book Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, he shows that Billy is very hardworking.
History shows that Billy Dargin was highly respected by his fellow troopers and officers, Dargin was to ride with some of the most esteemed Inspectors in the NSW police service many of whom would rise to the highest rank, largely on the successes of the police trackers ' abilities to hunt and find bushrangers, some of those officers are stated here; Inspector Pottinger, the officer most responsible for employing trackers for the specific task of tracking bushrangers, Inspector Sanderson, Inspector Davidson, Captain Battye, Inspector Norton, Inspector Morrisett, Trooper Hollister, Sgt Condell, just to name a few of those of who Billy Dargin had the respect of and who in the bush lived the hard slog together in a life where a man learns a lot
He spent the winters in Victoria and then he met and married his second wife. His fortune eventually ran out so he went back to being a miner and never found as big as find as Barkerville. In 1880 Billy moved to the town of Clinton and lived in at the Dominion Hotel until 1894 that year he moved to Victoria to live in a nursing home where he went to seek medical treatment for what seems to have been either jaw cancer or Parkinson’s disease. Even though July 11 1894 Billy died in Victoria B.C. and was buried at Ross bay cemetery Barkerville still remains open. Unlike many gold rush towns in this era Barkerville still remains open and thriving with rich historic remarks and there judge who put many criminals behind bars.
The cause for all this was the refusal of John Tunstall who refused to surrender the horses which were a payment for an outstanding payment. Tunstall was later shot by protesters protesting the presence of the posse on his land. Billy was affected by the murder; Billy was treated like a son by Tunstall. He swore to take revenge. Sheriffs were after billy when he was suspected of killing their deputies.
Even though his testimony helped to indict one of the power House faction leaders, John Dolan, the district attorney defied Wallace’s order to set Billy free after testifying. However, Billy was a skilled escape artist and slipped out of his handcuffs and fled. For the next year, he hung around Fort Sumner on the Pecos River and developed a fateful friendship with a local bartender named Pat Garrett, who was later elected sheriff of Lincoln County. As sheriff, Garrett was charged with arresting his friend Henry McCarty, who by now was almost exclusively known as “Billy the Kid. ”At about the same time, Billy had formed a gang, referred to as the “Rustlers” or simply “Billy the Kid’s Gang,” who survived by stealing and rustling as he did before.
Who was Billy the Kid and what did he do? William Henry McCarty Jr, A.K.A, Henry Antrim, A.K.A, William H. Bonney, A.K.A, Billy the Kid, A Scorpio Born in obscurity, however some think, the Big Apple. McCarty, (Kid) was orphaned at 15 and it is believed that this is when he started his career as an outlaw. As he grew up he developed quite a persona.
For the next two years, Billy took residence at what formerly was Fort Sumner, turned into a village, also where he murdered someone at a saloon, and framed for the Sheriff of White Oak’s death. Destroying his public reputation yet again, Billy was on the run and he avoided the law until newly hired sheriff Pat Garret took him into custody on December 23, 1880. He was to be hung on April 28, 1881, but with a daring escape, he killed two more men, this time, James Bell and Bob Olinger, the officers assigned to sentry over him in the penitentiary. While he escaped this time, Garret was determined to apprehend the rascal, once again discovering him inconspicuously making a living at Fort Sumner. Garrett ended the Kid’s life, shooting him through the heart.
Billy in no means was a rambo-esque type bloodthirsty killer, but more the awkward what am I doing here type instead. The innocent optometrist was once again forced into a stressful situation. He was the topic of deliberate bullying from other enlisted men, reasons being from his inability to sleep through the night, which could be linked directly to his traumatic experiences when he was younger, to the fact he couldn't keep up with the other men while participating in physical exercise. This lead to a group of men being killed which i’m sure didn't help bialys conscious. The stress only added up more when Billy had to experience the bombing of the beautiful city of dresden in a meat locker.
John Curtin John Curtin was an outstanding individual dedicated to a better Australia. Often described as serious and stern, these characteristics helped him to be the great leader he was during the nation’s toughest times. He was hard working and never stopped fighting for what he believed was right. The combination of these has made him one of the country’s most recognisable Prime Ministers today. This essay will explore how he rose through the ranks: from being an average child in WA to becoming wartime Prime Minister, and his determination and tenacity to overcome the fate of Australia.
Billy had more skill then most of the team, he thought by playing at the division three level he would receive more playing time then he was actually getting. Half way through the season he was very upset and developed a strong dislike
Life is like a movie. It can be overly filled with joy or as serious as a math final exam. The world is made up of elements like happiness, sadness, joy, sorrow and with these elements comes a time in life where it can be related to certain situations such as times in school. School is like a having second life and in the poem “Schoolsville,” Billy Collins portrays the idea that school is related to life itself as it is comical, serious, memorable, and poignant. It shows how life itself can be like school and how the comical, serious, memorable, as well as poignant elements of life are represented.
Billy wrote a letter to Wallace describing the events that led to Chapman's death, which Wallace received on March. Billy wrote that he no longer wanted to fight and that the majority of them are my friends and has been helping him all they could. In conclusion, the Lincoln county war was a blood bath over a sentimental death. Billy shows demonstrates that he does not really have a father figure in his life and the only one he had was Tunstall.
In order to prove this is agrees to go undercover into Costello’s gang and become and informant. Billy is a state trooper and
In Liam O’Flaherty’s The Sniper, the main character, a sniper, is in the middle of a civil war in Dublin, Ireland. It is his assigned duty to assassinate anyone on the the other side of the war, no matter who they are. This creates a huge conflict, considering that the sniper ends up killing his brother. This supports the central theme that war is cruel, and this can be supported by the craft elements of the dialogue used and the setting of the story.
Throughout the novel, Billy has specific experiences with horrific warfare