The blue and brown diamond : a history of the 27th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, 1915-1919 / by W. Dollman and H.M. Skinner ; forewords by Sir C.B.B. White and E.A. Wisdom

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Dollman, W. (Walter), 1873-1945
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Adelaide : Lonnen & Cope, 1921
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BLUE AND BROWN DIAMOND 1
PERSONAL HISTORY 2
BLUE AND BROWN DIAMOND 4
Blue and Brown Diamond 6
CONTENTS 8
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 9
PLANS OF OPERATIONS 9
INTRODUCTION 10
FOREWORDS 11
II. 12
ERRATA. 14
Blue and Brown Diamond 15
CHAPTER II. IN EGYPT. 22
CHAPTER III. ON GALLIPOLI. 24
CHAPTER IV. EGYPT ONCE MORE. 29
CHAPTER V. EARLY DAYS IN FRANCE. 32
CHAPTER VI. IN THE TRENCHES AT ARMENTIERES. 36
CHAPTER VII. MESSINES. 40
CHAPTER VIII. OFF TO THE SOMME. 47
CHAPTER IX. POZIERES. 53
APPENDIX “A.” ASSEMBLY. 58
APPENDIX “B.” ADMINISTRATIVE. 59
CHAPTER X. RESTING. 65
CHAPTER XI. BACK TO THE SOMME. 70
CHAPTER XII. SOMME REST. 76
CHAPTER XIII. GUEUDECOURT AND DELVILLE WOOD AND LE SARS. 80
CHAPTER XIV. WARLENCOURT. 83
CHAPTER XV. LAGNICOURT. 89
CHAPTER XVI. BULLECOURT. 94
CHAPTER XVII. BACK TO CIVILIZATION. 101
CHAPTER XVIII. THE DAWN OF PASSCHENDAELE. POLYGON WOOD. 106
CHAPTER XIX. PASSCHENDAELE—NEARER TO THE RIDGE. ZONNEBEKE—BROODSEINDE. 113
CHAPTER XX. NEUVE-EGLISE—ROMARIN. 122
CHAPTER XXI. WARNETON—RED LODGE. 126
CHAPTER XXII. PLEASANT MEMORIES—BELLEBRUNECREMAREST. 131
CHAPTER XXIII. KORTEPYP—FRELINGHIEN. 134
CHAPTER XXIV. THE “DIAMONDS” AGAIN ON THE SOMMECORBIE—BUIRE-SUR-ANCRE. 137
CHAPTER XXV. MORLANCOURT. 142
CHAPTER XXVI. VILLERS-BRETONNEUX. 153
CHAPTER XXVII. AUGUST 8, 1918—THE LAST QUARTER. 162
CHAPTER XXVIII. EXPLOITING SUCCESSES. 171
CHAPTER XXIX. BIACHES. 178
CHAPTER XXX. AIZECOURT-LE HAUT—MONT ST. QUENTIN RIDGE. 186
CHAPTER XXXI. A REST BY THE SOMME, NEAR CAPPY. 193
CHAPTER XXXII. THE BEGINNING OF THE END. 196
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE SILVER LINING. 209
CHAPTER XXXIV. FAREWELL TO THE SOMME. THE ADVANCE TO THE RHINE. 214
CHAPTER XXXV. LE-GRAND-FAYT—MONT-SUR-MARCHIENNE AND CHARLEROI. 219
CHAPTER XXXVI. BACK TO AUSTRALIA. 226
APPENDICES 231
LIEUT.-COL. J. C. F. SLANE, D. S.O., V.D. 233
LIEUT.-COL. F. R. CHALMERS, C.M.G., D.S.O. 234
LIST OF DECORATIONS 235
“OUR GLORIOUS DEAD” 237

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