HAVE heard of some awful experiences on the other side, but the worst I had, happened in a base hospital, miles away from the enemy. It ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 131 wordsPTE. MAURICE JOHN SOLOMONS, who, when last heard of, was working in a box factory at Redfern (N.S.W.).--Wanted by ...
Article : 254 wordsHOW many of the boys are left who crossed over to the big stoush in the old "Berrima" in December, 1914? We towed the ill-fated submarine ...
Article : 148 wordsABSENT from the ranks of the 5th Div, in the Anzac Day march in Melbourne for the first time since the war. Phil Roberts-- better known as ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 121 wordsTHE 25th owned the rare exception, a Digger who had never been known to swear. He answered to "Sainty." ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 104 wordsTHE shortest aerial fight I saw in France occurred above the German lines when we were in at Sailly-le-Sec in July, 1918. ...
Article : 133 wordsTERRY was the most untidy soldier in the A.I.F., full whenever possible, and adrift whenever opportunity offered. ...
Article : 121 wordsTHE mob were standing to one morning in the Flers Sector, and as ...
Article : 167 wordsSEVERAL weeks before Christmas of 1918 I was billeted with an old madam and her ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 247 wordsON the voyage back to Australia in the "Suevic" it was the custom of the Padre to hold a short service every evening on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 125 wordsIN a sudden charge at the bags of straw in bayonet fighting at Codford, I went almost through my bag. Whereupon the sergeant stormed. ...
Article : 86 words"SKEETER" hadn't been, in Broadmeadows Camp many days before the regular issue of brand-new army boots played up with his soft and ...
Article : 165 wordsWHEN the eight hours armistice with the Turks was due, we were informed that the truce would be from 7 a.m. till 3 p.m., and that white flags ...
Article : 165 wordsAT Bols Grenier, Ernie and Bill word detailed to carry Mills bombs up to the line. When they set out it was pitch dark. Bill ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 172 wordsMAJOR NARGOLAND, of the 16th Battalion, was one of the most popular officers of the 4th Brigade, both in Egypt and on Gallipoli. ...
Article : 96 wordsCAPTAIN "MICKEY" COATES, of the 29th, was as good as a brass band on the march, He'd trot along in front of his company, whistling like a ...
Article : 119 wordsWAS on picket one night at Rolleston, Salisbury Plains, with "Robbo" and two others, to stop tho boys from dodging round the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 151 wordsWHILE the 29th Battalion (Tivey's "Chocs.") were billetted at Ramburellos, the Froggies complained bitterly about the raids made on their ...
Article : 117 wordsON the Peninsula, Jimmy Cox of the 13th L.H. lost his regulation identity disc, and induced the armorer-sergeant to engrave the necessary particulars on ...
Article : 72 wordsI'LL bet "Gibbie," a two-pip artist of the 29th Bn., will remember this, We had just come out of the line near Passchendaele and had taken up ...
Article : 140 wordsA SOLDIER, who had been reported killed, and against whose name in the battalion records a note had been made, turned up and reported himself. ...
Article : 96 wordsOUR Signalling sergeant went A.W.L. for a week--drunk all the time--but I'm sure if he had told his story properly in the orderly room he'd have ...
Article : 106 wordsTHE Tommy sergeant-major had been laying down the law on bayonet lighting to a crowd of disinterested Diggers, and at the ...
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Smith's Weekly (Sydney, NSW : 1919 - 1950), Sat 30 May 1931, Page 20
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