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  2. Crowning Moment In The Naval History Of The War

    IN all England's sea story. there had been no more dramatic moment. Of all her sailor sons none better fitted ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 584 words
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    SERGEANT: How's it the sniper over there's getting so many of our mob in the arms? SENTRY: Because they're like flamin' school kids--holdin' up their arms and askin' him can they leave the blanky line. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 38 words
  4. Too True

    NO Unit could fight or march better than the 3rd Battalion, and a lot of the credit for marching was due to Sig. Sergt. "Toc." Oates, who led the ...

    Article : 132 words
  5. A Quiet Time

    WORD had gone down the line that Bluey Rielly was suffering badly from shell shock. Investigation revealed him sitting behind an old barn ...

    Article : 152 words
  6. His Thrill

    "MY most 'orrible moment," said Long Bill reminiscently, "wus when I was lyin' 'elpless and seen a blasted cow tryin' on the German ...

    Article : 36 words
  7. Blood Pressure

    HAD a chap named Inwood in our company who was rather fond of a Joke against anybody. One day he broke out in bolls, and the George ...

    Article : 44 words
  8. Sympathy

    ONE night, near Zonnebeke Lake, in October 17, my platoon was being strafed by an energetic five-nine battery. After hours of it the trench was ...

    Article : 163 words
  9. Cohen's Last Chance

    COHEN had had only the thinnest chance. He had been terribly wounded in the thigh, and his chance had been an immediate amputation. ...

    Article : 116 words
  10. Beer Where Due

    EVERY hotel habitue has met, and shouted for, the first Digger to land at Anzac; the Digger who, after "Pompey" Elliott had threatened vengeance ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 202 words
  11. Handy

    ON August 9, 1918, at Harbonnieres, where the big gun exhibited at Canberra was captured, infantry were held up by about 90 machine guns in a deep ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 153 words
  12. Dinkum

    DARKEY, a battalion wit, was telling of his experience when he ...

    Article : 81 words
  13. The Language We Knew

    IT was in August, 1916. I had been through Pozieres, and a little later came the attack on Mouquet Farm. For the hop-over, I with others, was on the apex of a triangle of trenches, and, immediately on getting on top those on the left went to the left, and ...

    Article : 362 words
  14. Lucky

    ONE night more wet than usual, during the Somme offensive of 1916, I was serving a gun in a N.Z. battery in Death Valley. The order was a shot ...

    Article : 120 words
  15. An Old Friend

    AT Bullecourt, while Fritz was straffing our possie, a shabby blue dog dived into the hole in the sunken road that I occupied and refused to ...

    Article : 203 words
  16. Like Fates

    OUR M.O., Captain Dash, A.A.M.C., a huge man, standing well over six feet and weighing about 16 stone, had as batman a little chap, Billy ...

    Article : 123 words
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