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  2. A Digger's Diary

    Dear "Non-Com.,"—I read L.N.W.'s letter in a recent issue with interest. I quite agree with Major Mountjoy's specifications of the ideal troop horse; in fact, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 578 words
  3. Personal War Tales.

    Those of [?]ur readers who took part in the Great War are invited, to send for publication short accounts of happenings with which they themselves were concerned The tales can be ...

    Article : 74 words
  4. ANOTHER WAR MEMORY.

    It was Christmas, 1917. Christmas Day had come and gone at the No. 1 A.A.H., Harefield Park, and our war weariness and thc pain of wounds left us like magic as ...

    Article : 606 words
  5. THE WEEK'S BEST YARN.

    Catholic as was the digger's taste in beverages, a section of the 8th Australian Machine Gun Company once agreed that ...

    Article : 171 words
  6. The Western Front.

    Frank Fegan, on February 5, at Wooroloo, aged 69; late 2nd Field Engineers, A.I.F. ...

    Article : 26 words
  7. Premonition.

    My pal and I had a pact that whoever survived the longer was to send home the other's "effects," and a report to his relatives as to how it "happened," and ...

    Article : 212 words
  8. AUSSIE INITIATIVE.

    Dear "Non-Com,"—Coming back from leave above the end of 1916, I cobbered up with an Aussie. We were both due back in France on the same day. The leave train ...

    Article : 258 words
  9. A Letter from Launceston.

    Dear "Non-Com."—It is some time since I contributed to your good old red page, although I have been reading it regularly. I have not been able to send anything ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 662 words
  10. SUBTERFUGE.

    At a certain railway station in London, one evening, could have been seen "Old "Bill" of the A.M.C. and Jock of the 44th, the latter in his element with a certain ...

    Article : 211 words
  11. One Rainy Day.

    In an attic under the roof of a dilapidated structure in Grand Fayt. in December, 1918, a number of us sat on our gear placed against the walls. Some were ...

    Article : 386 words
  12. A Pozieres Experience.

    Speaking of outstanding experiences, mine was on a party carrying water to those already in the line at Pozieres. We were 80 strong, and the others were on ...

    Article : 302 words
  13. Rank and File.

    An interesting visitor last week was Captain Robert Gee, V.C., of Mullewa, who told me he had been a reader of this page for so many years that he considered it ...

    Article : 350 words
  14. Advertising

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    Advertising : 97 words
  15. THESE FOREIGNERS AGAIN!

    Dear "Non-Corn,"—During the summer of 1917 I was in hospital blues and had cobbered up with Mick, a fed-up harddoer wearing the same garb. One ...

    Article : 102 words
  16. The Escape.

    The escape of two young Aussies from a clink at Fovant (Eng.) one Sunday morning in the closing months of 1918 is one of the incidents stored in memory's ...

    Article : 205 words
  17. "ENNY COMPLYNTS!"

    Tidworth, England, 1914. The orderly officer, accompanied by a full-blooded Cockney sergeant, was going the rounds, and called at the dining-room. ...

    Article : 70 words
  18. On Parade.

    The 11th Battalion (A.I.F.) Association ia holding its annual picnic at the Naval Base (Ten-mile well) on Sunday next (February 18). Buses have been chartered and ...

    Article : 87 words
  19. THE ISSUE RAZOR!

    The issue razor had a bad reputation in the A.I.F. One day a digger had to go to the orderly room and the lieutenant eyed him with disfavour. "What's ...

    Article : 73 words
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