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  2. CHARLIE VAUDE’S REMINISCENCES

    ENGLISH comedians and comic singers come to Australia with a certain amount of temerity ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,666 words
  3. In a Titanic Match with Budge Jack Crawford

    One result of Australia's Davis Cup team’s defeat by Germany in 1935 was that the L.T.A.A. decided to challenge in the American zone in 1936 instead of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,291 words
  4. It Happened in the A.I.F.

    he New Zealand digger's story of the [?] plate that saved him from dire destruction, recalls [?] of "armorplated" Aussies that I saw at the Melbo [?] et ground just after the war. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 568 words
  5. MENU WAS GOOD

    A gruff old colonel was in the habit of taking his lunch at a Melbourne hotel. The male waiters had been replaced by ...

    Article : 71 words
  6. SWIMMING LESSON, No. 6

    We are still out of the water as we start tills lesson, but we’ll be back in it before we finish, and well actually be starting to swim, too. You now have the rhythm of the antistrike. Next you must fit your breathing into this rhythm. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 476 words
  7. High Finance

    IN 1917 I was in the Australian camp at Bostrall Heath, Abbey Wood. Kent, London. We had a real wag of a felloe they called “Curly.” He ...

    Article : 185 words
  8. Tactics That Misfired

    IT was Christmas eve, 1917. bitterly cold, and we didn’t have a drop of drink hi the sergeants’ mess. A pal and I were returning camp wards ...

    Article : 259 words
  9. RECKONED M.O. LIED

    ANY member of the 7th platoon, B Company. 21st Battalion, will verify this — it he happened to be about that day in were Gully back ...

    Article : 133 words
  10. “YOW !! —THE DOCTOR”

    AT Verne Citadel, Dorset, England, In 1917 batches of diggers arrived from France to await the decision of a medical board after ...

    Article : 204 words
  11. QUESTION OF VALUES

    During one stunt in France in 1916 the Aussies captured a German general. An attache was sent to attempt to negotiate an exchange. “We will give you four English officers for him,” said the ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. NOW YOU TELL ONE

    WRITE now and tell us the best digger story you book. Each week The Globe will rare a Price of [?] for the story [?]ged best of those used ...

    Article : 86 words
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