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  2. Heat and Cold

    WHILE the Third Division was training at Salisbury Plain at the end of 1916, the officers of our battalion paid a visit to London to ...

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  3. UNOFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE A.I.F.

    PADDY was a very popular officer among the trainees on Salisbury Plain. This ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 132 words
  4. Last Laugh

    WHILE we were at No. 7 training camp, Egypt, someone suggested a visit to the great Cheops Pyramid. On arriving at the ...

    Article : 174 words
  5. "Mutilated in Action"

    MOST amusing mutilation of messages that came under my notice occurred ...

    Article : 195 words
  6. Too Right

    "ARE you thar, Major?" called out the colonel, crawling from his dugout one black night on the Somme. "Yes, Colonel, Aim heah." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 83 words
  7. Fall In, the Gunners!

    DIGGERS of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 102nd batteries will hold a reunion in Melbourne on April 24, Anzac Eve. ...

    Article : 61 words
  8. The Lid On It

    OUR 'Erb was forever being paraded before the Platoon Officer for coming on parade without having his hat turned up at the side. At ...

    Article : 170 words
  9. All in Together

    OVERSTAYING our leave a few hours amid vin and mademoiselle, six of us were making a somewhat rowdy attempt to sneak into camp unseen. Out ...

    Article : 58 words
  10. Sleeping Cars

    AT Ypres after the Armistice a small party of Australian Engineers were left behind to look after an electric light plant. Billets were none too ...

    Article : 119 words
  11. Fiery Language

    NOISY BILL was the name given to a chap in our battalion because his name was Bill and because he only spoke when necessary. His one ...

    Article : 227 words
  12. "Blobs"

    "BLOBS" was in the 55th Battalion. He was the slowest, dullest, and rawest recruit in the company. On "No Man's Land" was a Hun ...

    Article : 126 words
  13. The Deserter

    THROUGH the Gates of Remembrance (Sydney) early one summer morning there passed a unit of 800 men: Good-bye at the gates. Then: "Fall in ...

    Article : 220 words
  14. Retort Mutinous

    ON the night of the evacuation of Gallipoli, rum jars were destroyed by the hundreds, and the rum ran away in a steady stream. One ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 139 words
  15. Helped Himself

    LIEUT., COL. A. GRAHAM BUTLER, popular O.C. of the Third Field Ambulance, required some material from the engineers' dump, but ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 96 words
  16. One Man's Meat is Another Man's Beer

    THE Armistice had not long been signed, and our billets were ...

    Article : 152 words
  17. Not Understood

    THE war would have been over two years sooner if the Heads had ...

    Article : 136 words
  18. Full Marks

    AFTER gazing upon the ale in all its amber beauty, a Digger presented ...

    Article : 79 words
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