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Ned Kelly

Lake Munmorah PS

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wounds 

sentenced 

police 

armour 

escaped 

bushrangers

rescue  

hanged

surrounded 

stand

fleeing 

outlaw 

survivor 

drowning 


Ned Kelly was an __________________ who rode a horse, put on a suit of  ______________and fought police. Today, Ned Kelly is an Australian legend.

In June 1880 Ned made his last _____________________.

The Kelly gang was at the Glenrowan Hotel when they were ______________________by police. Prepared to fight, the four __________________ wore suits of armour made from steel.

During the battle, Ned ___________________through the police lines. But rather than _________________ into the bush, he returned a number of times to fight police. He was trying to ____________________his brother and friends.

Eventually, he collapsed with more than twenty-eight bullet ________________to his arms, legs, feet, groin and hands.

Beneath his armour a green sash he wore was stained with blood. It was a sash he'd been given many years earlier for saving a ________________ boy.

Ned was the only _______________of the siege. Joe Byrne had been shot early on and after Ned's capture police set fire to the Inn and the charred remains of Dan Kelly and Steve Hart were removed.

After Ned recovered he was convicted of the murder of one of the ________________ officers at Stringy Bark, and despite protests by thousands of supporters, was to ____________________ death.

In Melbourne gaol, on 11 November 1880 Ned Kelly was ___________________. He was twenty-five years old.