Anzac Day 2020: The man whose music 'stopped the war'

By Claire Hunter
Updated July 2 2021 - 1:42am, first published April 17 2020 - 12:00am
Ted McMahon's cornet. Picture: courtesy Kerry Everett.
Ted McMahon's cornet. Picture: courtesy Kerry Everett.

When Sergeant Edward McMahon played The Rosary on his cornet in the foothills of Gallipoli in August 1915, everyone stopped to listen.

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