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  2. PUZZLE: TEA OR STEW?

    "WHAT'S this the Babbling Brook has given me--tea or stew?" asked the new hand. "It's tea," said his cobber. ...

    Article : 90 words
  3. UNOFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE A.I.F.

    TALKING of S.I. wounds reminds me of Private E--. Fed up to the back teeth with his holiday at Gallipoli, he put a bullet through his foot. Made quite a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 71 words
  4. THE COLONEL'S POLISH

    A "BUSHED" Digger blew up to a stationary staff car one night at Cappy. In the car was a Fourth Divvy colonel. The Digger was unabashed. ...

    Article : 87 words
  5. COLLOQUIAL

    BLUEY, charged with having removed an ammunition box from the dump, began ...

    Article : 73 words
  6. COUGH AND CURE

    IT was during a Blighty leave that Bluey was invited, with others, to look through the baronial halls of one of England's noblest. ...

    Article : 97 words
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    WE were in billets at Bertancourt-les-Dames. Four of us had a snug possie in a small estaminet, and Madame, helped, by eight-year-old Flora, worked magic with our bully and biscuit. One day Fritz's bombardment caused the railway tunnel near Amiens to collapse, and ...

    Article : 164 words
  8. THOSE AWFUL AUSTRALIANS

    AN Australian battallon had been detailed to co-operate with a Tommy brigade in a small operation, and, as their own supply of bombs was very ...

    Article : 243 words
  9. SHELL-SHAVED

    THINGS had been fairly quiet for a while over our sector, and Bluey decided he was due to have his weekly shave in peace. In the shelter of the ...

    Article : 129 words
  10. THE BOOTLESS PRISONERS

    THIS happened near Villers-Bret. after the Tommies had been pushed back and our mob had to go up at the toot and stop Fritz from getting Amiens. ...

    Article : 125 words
  11. CAIRO WAS IN PANIC

    WHEN the Battle of the Wazir broke out the Gyppos in the vicinity funked it to a man. Diggers took charge of the trams, which fractured all speed ...

    Article : 107 words
  12. A TENNER TO SPEND

    DARKY ROSS, of the Camel Corps, received word that there was a tenner from his wife waiting for him in the Anglo-Egyptian Bank at Cairo, and he ...

    Article : 138 words
  13. IN STRANGE PLACES

    QUEER billets were often wished on the innocent Digger. Returning on one occasion with a batch of sick and wounded to famous Pop. during the ...

    Article : 147 words
  14. CALLED THE COLONEL'S TOSS

    OUR colonel, always fond of a joke, wasn't so terribly sore over one at his own expense. Of a restless temperament, he was constantly fingering or playing with something. This naturally caused remark among the "rank and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 220 words
  15. THE MULE REMEMBERED

    IN 1918, Second Division Headquarters possessed an Argentine mule, which was wounded by shrapnel near Querrieu, on the road to Villers-Bretonneux. From that moment Dobbin refused to travel an inch of the road to V.B. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 193 words
  16. GOOD TO BE COOK

    CHRISTMAS, 1915, after the evacuation of Gallipoli, I was attached to officers' mess at Lemnos as cook's off-sider. Our "babbling" had the qualifications of a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 230 words
  17. CLASSED HIMSELF C3

    AS an entertainer, Chut was the star artist of the regiment. In addition to a good voice, he possessed a sufficiency of humor and wit to be termed ...

    Article : 176 words
  18. ANTI-TANK RIFLEMAN

    DURING the attack on Mont St. Quentin we captured a lot of German antitank rifles, which were brought back to the brigade salvage dump. ...

    Article : 79 words
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