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  2. "A Terwibble Waw-ah"

    ANYTHING "aw'flly English" was a helluva joke to "Lofty" H-- ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 379 words
  3. UNOFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE A.I.F.

    HOW'S this for fortitude? A 14th Battn. corporal, Harry Reynolds, was badly knocked in 1918 at Allonville, and, as he lay on a stretcher, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 85 words
  4. How Did They?

    KEN. BASSETT. (Bassett's wines, Roma), George Jarrett (National Bank), and Arch. Holloway (storekeeper, Inglewood way), were together ...

    Article : 120 words
  5. Posted Missing at "Smith's"

    LIEUT. HOCKENHULL, M.C., late of the 47th Battery.--Wanted by George Grieve, 32 Austin Street, Fairfield Park, ...

    Article : 158 words
  6. Destructive Shelling

    FRITZ put over some dangerous ironmongery during the big fight. The Fourth Divvy were the recipients of three particularly destructive ...

    Article : 113 words
  7. A Brave Soldier

    AT Fleurbaix on the night of July 19, 1916, Captain Mills, of the 32nd Battalion, called on me to follow him and bomb the dugouts with Mills gren ...

    Article : 153 words
  8. Dawn Pilgrimage

    SOME years ago the Australian Legion of ex-Servicemen's Clubs inaugurated a memorial service at the Cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney at ...

    Article : 104 words
  9. A Turn Up

    HAVING a last look around in Blighty early in 1919 with a pass several days out of date, I picked my way carefully towards Victoria Station, dodging ...

    Article : 148 words
  10. Pig-headed Authority

    EVERY man who was down the Somme know that death trap--Needle Dump. Every night about 6 o'clock a couple of hundred of the boys ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 123 words
  11. His Swan Song

    RETURNING to Boulogne from Blighty leave, the Diggers were sorted out in the rain, and marched to the railway-yards ...

    Article : 175 words
  12. Didn't Like "Raspberries"

    ANY Light Horseman, who was in Port Said when the French troops from the Congo were there, should remember the chase ...

    Article : 169 words
  13. 4th D.A.C. AHOY!

    DRIVER J. S. PENN, of the 4th D.A.C., is anxious to get into touch with any D.A.C. Digger, who witnessed an accident about ...

    Article : 100 words
  14. Unrewarded Bravery

    THE allocation of awards for bravery in the field has always been a bone of contention among ex-members of the A.I.F. ...

    Article : 158 words
  15. Water Bottle-o!

    THE Americans in France never really understood why their reputation for smartness left the Diggers unimpressed. As a matter of fact, the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 165 words
  16. The Old Cow!

    AFTER a long, thirsty march, we billetted, one afternoon, on a little Belgian farm near Hazebrouck, and hopping out of our packs, scouted ...

    Article : 335 words
  17. In a Mix

    LATE in '17 the 14th Bde. Transport were passing through Hazebrouck when the head of the column was held up through the closing of the railway ...

    Article : 180 words
  18. Only the Bait

    AT one period of the war, Cairo was a particularly unhealthy spot, owing to riots, and, in many cases, batches of Diggers were ordered to quell the ...

    Article : 101 words
  19. There Wasn't Any

    DUNTROONERS will remember Colonel Owen, a great little old man from Gallipoli, who took charge of an officers' school in 1916-1917. ...

    Article : 101 words
  20. For Soldiers Only

    IT was August, 1918, and we were sitting around our guns waiting for further orders, having reached the limit of our barrage. ...

    Article : 91 words
  21. Replaced Everything

    CALL them what you like, scroungers, foragers, or just plain "borrowers," we had the champion of the cult with us--"Abo" Clark. ...

    Article : 159 words
  22. Teaching THEM Manners

    REMEMBER Big Bill, the mess or derly at the detail camp at Moascar? He had threatened reprisals if the hungry mob at his table, did not ...

    Article : 103 words
  23. 38th Reunion

    SPECIAL interest attaches to the general reunion of the 38th Battalion in Melbourne on Anzac Eve (Saturday, April 23), as this will be the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 99 words
  24. Only the Cameliers

    THE Imperial Camel Corps was a unit that included some of the real hard doers of the A.I.F., and on its being disbanded, the Light Horse ...

    Article : 106 words
  25. Reserved for--Diggers

    LE HAVRE.--A long train of cattle trucks for transporting the troops up the line, and in the centre a flrst-class carriage, with a notice on each ...

    Article : 195 words
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