BENT STREET, Paddington, recently became famous. The announcement that this little thoroughfare, comprising only 30 houses, had sent forth no fewer than 25 of its men to fight for their King and country created widespread interest, and the remark was commonly heard that Bent Street had set an admirable example, to the whole of the Commonwealth. Since that announcement the number of volunteers from the modest little street has been increased, and the "Mail" is now able (through the enthusiasm of Mr. Osborne, M.L.A., who collected the pictures) to publish portraits of 29 soldiers of the King who have gone to the front from their homes in Bent Street. Among them is Brigade-Major J. T. M'Coll, who is now stationed at Salonica as an officer in the Imperial Army. Previously, however, he had spent 12 strenuous months in France, and was in the thick of the fighting all the time. He, like most of the other volunteers, spent his boyhood in Paddington and learnt his first lessons at the local public school. He has three brothers at the war. Captain H. J. Connell was also educated in Paddington. His brother Charles was one of the first to enlist. He went to New Guinea with the first contingent, and is now in the firing lire "somewhere in France." Three of the lads have been promoted to sergeants' rank, and two others are corporals, while the rest are privates. Some of the heroes will never return. Corporal Jack J. Gough was killed in action on July 9, 1915, and sleeps on Gallipoli Peninsula, with comrades just as brave. Private Dan Wiles was stricken with meningitis while in Egypt, and he, too, lies buried on a faroff shore. Many others have been wounded, more or less seriously, and two - Privates E. C. Taylor and A. Artz - have returned to Australia, unfit for further service. Private H. E. Collins also came home, but has since gone back to the front.