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His actual name was Henry Guiseppe Soraru, born in Sydney 1900, parents were Guiseppe and Beatrice Soraru (nee York0 who were married in Hobart in January 1900. He may of used the name Sorarn to disguise the fact he had tried to enlist earlier being underage.
Letter to the Advocate and Emu Bay Times 19th August 1915
TO THE PHYSICALLY FIT
To the Editor.
Sir, — I trust you will allow me little of your valuable space to make an appeal to some of the physically fit young men of the North-West Coast. There is no doubt ' they are responding well to the call of the Empire, but still there are some who think and say, 'Oh I am not wanted; they have got more men than they can equip already. This is not so. Every man is wanted; every man in Australia is called upon to do his duty. And that is the only way the British Empire can crush the enemy of civilisation. The time for silly and thoughtless sayings are past. It will require the help of every man who is fit to bring this war to a successful
conclusion, and it can't be done otherwise. Twelve months have gone by since the beginning of hostilities, and we find our enemy in a better position than he was six months ago. It
is of no use relying on this blockade of. Germany by the Allies. To make a long story short. I will say that Germany cannot be starved out. Has not the Kaiser had photographs taken
of immense supplies of herrings and other kind of preserved goods to prove it? And they have been published in the English papers. Russia is the nation which the Allies relied upon to
split Germany up. Russia is the nation that can put 20 million men of the required physique in the field. But she can't supply them with munitions, not having enough ammunition and
provisions to equip the number, she now has in the field. The fault, is with the other Allies, in that she was unprepared for war. The way in which. Russia equipped and placed in the field such a large army (about 8 millions) in such a short time was marvellous. And they proved their pasture by the rapid and successful march they made into Austria Hungary. But the strain was too great. Russia ran short of ammunition, and can't supply her army. The result is
that this army is now forced out of the enemy territory, and her own people and the cities are endangered. It is through the straits of the Dardanelles that success lies. Once these Straits are split we have a short straight path to Russia, and it is through them that supplies sufficient
to place her enormous armies in the field that Russia will, in a. short time, settle the war. And it is upon the Australians that the task has been put. They have glorified themselves
by accomplishing 'impossible' tasks.

Come along, boys, and be men. Come out and prove that you are made of the same metal as the boys who went before you! Can you hear that cry for aid from Gallipoli and the pitiful pleas of the homeless, maimed and tortured Belgians, whom we are bound by treaty to protect? Take up the gun, boys; prove again to the world the blood that is in you, and if you are true Australians you will not rest until you have righted everyone of Belgium's wrongs. Yours, etc.,
H. G. SORARN.
Claremont.