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

    ZERO hour for the first re-union of interstate Diggers and Allied Forces residing in Queensland has been fixed for 7.45 pip emma on August 11, the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 174 words
  3. Wash'er Matter

    TINY and Tod were inseparable pals at Larkhill Camp, and often spent a merry time qt the adjoining village of Amesbury. ...

    Article : 191 words
  4. Posted Missing at "Smith's"

    COBBERS of the late Driver T. L. Blair, ex-No. 4442, of South Australia, who went away with the 14th Reinforcements of the 10th ...

    Article : 142 words
  5. "WELSHER'S" SINCERE, IF BELATED, APPRECIATION

    HAVE noticed many disparaging remarks in "Smith's" as to the treatment of troops at Sarpl Camp, Lemnos, subsequent to the evacuation. It is ...

    Article : 193 words
  6. Posted Missing At "Smith's"

    L[?]CPL. ARCHIE KAY (who was in the County of London War Hospital, Epsom, England), "Curly" Josephs (who was in ...

    Article : 124 words
  7. Not on the Programme

    ON leave in Brussels soon after Fritz had departed, we ended up at the Opera House, but only after "Bluey," through ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 282 words
  8. Got Away With It

    DURING that season of mud and trench feet on the Somme in 1916 British Army heads complained that too many of the A.I.F. were being ...

    Article : 175 words
  9. Luck of the Game

    CAN'T remember his name, but he was a limber gunner in the 1st section of D.A.C. The boys often used to tell the yarn ...

    Article : 123 words
  10. THE WHOLE ISSUE

    CAMPED on the hills at Suvla Bay, just after landing on Gallipoli, several donks were captured from Johnny Turk, the 5th ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 112 words
  11. Win for "Jacky, the--"

    IT happened at a small village called Boozey, on the Somme. The Colonel, who prided himself a little on the way he could use them ...

    Article : 166 words
  12. War on the Blighty Front

    DURING the 1916-1917 winter at Wareham Camp, England, fuel became very scarce, and desperate measures had to be adopted to keep ...

    Article : 92 words
  13. Holding His Ground

    THEY had only just been drafted into the front line, and as this was their first glimpse of the "Big Fight" they were surprised at the inactivity of the ...

    Article : 103 words
  14. His Concern

    THE landing broke down all barriers between officers and men. "Nick," a dag of a stretcher-bearer of our battalion, paused in his search for ...

    Article : 196 words
  15. The Difference

    IN July, 1918, we were eight miles behind the stoush at a joint called Hondegen, when one night our dreams of Australia were broken by a shot and ...

    Article : 146 words
  16. Postman's Knock

    BILLETED in a farmhouse near the top of Dead Dog Avenue (Fleurbaix), Fritz decided the time was ripe to spray a modicum of shrapnel ...

    Article : 110 words
  17. Blessing in Disguise

    PADDY----, of the 24th Batt., had a bad habit of always getting a little too much on board during his many visits to towns close to the front ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 291 words
  18. The Linguist

    FRED fancied himself as a linguist on the strength of having picked up a few words of the Froggy lingo. Strolling along the village street, the ...

    Article : 145 words
  19. The Winning Answer

    "FEATHERS" was the light-headed man of B Coy. He would hold forth on any old subject, but his long suit was the cussedness of soldiering. ...

    Article : 153 words
  20. Engineers' Jollo

    THE Field Company Engineers Reunion Jollo will be held at Miss Bishop's. 117 Bathurst Street, Sydney on Saturday, August 1, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 118 words
  21. Buckshee Beer

    KNEW only one man who really longed for the enemy to start shelling; but he had a reason. We were camped near Jericho, in the land ...

    Article : 155 words
  22. Completing the Job

    IN the A.I.F., failure to have the tunic buttoned, chip strap down, etc., was known officially as being regimentally undressed. ...

    Article : 115 words
  23. The Cavalry's Arrival

    WONDER how many of "A" Co., 34th Btn., remember April 4, 1918, somewhere near Villers Brett? We had been marching about in ...

    Article : 207 words
  24. The Tragedy

    WONDER how many of the 5th of the 18th remember the Xmas of 1915 and the picket in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo. About a dozen of us ...

    Article : 191 words
  25. Made a "Bloomer"

    XMAS, 1917, and the old 6th Battery camped at the foot of Rommel Hill. Madame had just bustled us out of the estaminet and in the dark I walked ...

    Article : 129 words
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