1997 $1 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith The World's Greatest Pioneering Aviator Silver Proof Coin PNCs - 20c The Royal Australian Mint wishes

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Crossing the wide brown land of Australia was an insurmountable task 100 years ago

Australian troops of the 4th Division carried out an unsuccessful attack on Germany’s formidable Hindenburg Line near the village of Bullecourt in France

After falling to the Australians on 23 July

1997 $1 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith The World's Greatest Pioneering Aviator Silver Proof Coin PNCs - 20c The Royal Australian Mint wishesIn the 1920s and early 1930s Charles Kingsford Smith (1897 1935) made his mark upon the world by breaking or creating many long distance air records, the most famous being the 1928 first transpacific flight. In June 1927, Kingsford Smith and co pilot Charles Ulm flew a Bristol Tourer bi plane with a single Puma engine around Australia. They covered the 12,000 kilometre route in the record time of 10 days, 5 1 4 hours.