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  2. THE IRREPRESSIBLE DIGGER IN HIS WALKS ABROAD

    MEDICAL ORDERLY: What give yer shell shock? DIGGER: Watchin' Fritz shellin' the possy the R.S.M. wuz in scared outer me blanky life the cows 'nd miss 'im. WELL-MEANING PADRE: Honestly, I don't see how yon can get out ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 724 words
  3. An Old Soldier

    "SOL" COMPTON, sergeant cook at Liverpool, and erstwhile assistant publisher of the Sydney "News," had many amusing experiences at ...

    Article : 168 words
  4. Bitter Pills

    STONKER, the battalion dag, looked a picture of misery when he paraded before the M.O. "How long have you been sick?" ...

    Article : 110 words
  5. "Bury the S.M., Too"

    SCOTTY was an excellent soldier, but he did not regard his N.C.O.'s in the reverent and obedient spirit which keeps the red ink out of the pay book. ...

    Article : 113 words
  6. Their First Route March

    THE declaration of war in 1914 brought a mob of English reservists to Victoria Barracks at 8 a.m. to enlist. ...

    Article : 143 words
  7. Getting Practice

    THE colonel was riding along when suddenly a sentry appeared and challenged him. "Dismount for identification," the ...

    Article : 57 words
  8. Good Old Charles

    ON September 8, 1914, I enlisted and met Charles. I passed all right, and, placed in charge of a military gentleman, with others, proceeded ...

    Article : 370 words
  9. Other Places, Other Manners

    BILL, having worked himself up to three star rank through sheer ability and pluck, and not giving a damn for anybody or anything, was ...

    Article : 92 words
  10. Australians at Zebrugge

    AUSTRALIA was fairly well represented at the first raid on the Mole at Zebrugge. Weeks before the raid, the ...

    Article : 136 words
  11. "NO FLOWERS--"

    IT was during a mock stunt at Liverpool (N.S.W.) in 1917. Our platoon had attacked and captured an "enemy" position. ...

    Article : 85 words
  12. Too--Right!

    THE padre was having a quiet chat with us about our language, and came down heavily on two favorite words, which, be said, were getting us ...

    Article : 103 words
  13. A Very Strong Team

    DURING the visit of the second A.I.F. football team to Cologne after the Armistice, the officer-in-charge was warned that a raid was to take place that night in an effort to rid the town of Diggers in Cologne A.W.L. The officer had a pass for his team, ...

    Article : 124 words
  14. Pinched the Inkpot.

    "KLEP" he was called by members of the company, because he simply could not resist pinching anything left lying around. "Klep's" depredations 'became so active, that at last his comrades complained, and the O.C. heard of it. ...

    Article : 101 words
  15. Night Watchman's Job

    IT was in those dim, distant days of 1914 when training for the A.I.F. had just commenced, and "Lofty" was having his first taste of sentry-go. ...

    Article : 111 words
  16. Its Many Uses

    THE bayonet, a formidable weapon of offence and defence, was converted to other uses by the resourceful Diggers. It made a tolerably good ...

    Article : 72 words
  17. A.I.F.'s Oldest Joke

    IN France in 1917 I received a letter marked "Urgent." It had followed me to several civilian and camp addresses in Victoria, and after nearly ...

    Article : 69 words
  18. The Ianzacs

    EVER hear of the Italian Anzacs? I was one of them. We wore so dubbed because, although it was late in 1917 when we visited the big stoush. ...

    Article : 190 words
  19. The Password

    WHEN 1914 world hostilities broke out, no place went into a greater ferment of excitement than Port Moresby, Papua, But after a ...

    Article : 223 words
  20. Consolation

    YEARS and years and years ago, when the war was on and the only depression of any importance was that made in the ground by a five-point-nine ...

    Article : 116 words
  21. Speaking About Bars

    THE A.I.F. had bars to canteens, bars on non-com's their sentence; but, strange to relate, not one ...

    Article : 195 words
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