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Rock engraving throws spotlight on Australia s top-secret World War II mustard gas program
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Ross Ashley Bryan, far right, second row from the bottom, was one of the RAAF chemical warfare armourers at Innisfail in 1944.
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In 1943, a young man carved his name, the date, and his place of birth, into a rock outside the old Glenbrook Railway Tunnel, at the eastern side of the Blue Mountains.
Almost 80 years later, that small act has highlighted his remarkable involvement in the top-secret Australian storage of deadly mustard gas during World War II despite a ban on its use after World War I.
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