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

    EARLY in 1916 we spurred up the Nile Valley to exchange wallops with a threatened Senussi attach. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 748 words
  3. Tricked the Old Brig.

    DURING one of the 4th Brigade marches, when intense training was the order, the Brigadier (Brand) and staff were early astir and galloped on ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 204 words
  4. Fritz Was Mischievous

    WHILE the guns of the 103rd Battery were in emplacements in front of Havrincourt, the wagon lines were located on the fringe of Velu Wood, a ...

    Article : 135 words
  5. Precedence

    AT Plymouth in 1919 the Embarkation Officer had his hands full arranging berths for the troops and the brass hats, headed by the lieutenant-colonel, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 175 words
  6. Marching on the Stomach

    RUSHED by road to the Somme in 1916 our brigade, the 15th, debussed in the vicinity of Albert sometime in the afternoon. The only tucker ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 244 words
  7. Reprisals

    WAS occupying a sniper's post in the line at Armentieres, in early '16, and was commenting upon the peaceful scene for a battlefield. The ...

    Article : 262 words
  8. Love's Labor Lost

    NO language was ever so lurid as the flow our platoon ladled out to "Red" and Andy when they came back to the chalk-pits near Villers ...

    Article : 150 words
  9. Gruelling Engagement

    THE annual church bazaar was on, and the distinguished visitor was a certain colonel of the A.I.F., who brought back a reputation for ...

    Article : 168 words
  10. All is Not Beer That Froths

    WAS with a party of 8th L.H. going up the line in Palestine in '16, when some trucks parted company with the rest of the train, near ...

    Article : 240 words
  11. For Colonel Youden

    A LETTER has been received at "Smith's" for Colonel Youden, formerly of the Second Battalion, and will be delivered or forwarded, on ...

    Article : 32 words
  12. The "Jack" Hunters

    BOTH "Pongo" and Bill heartily detested "Jacks," and, being tough "birds," lost no chance of quarrelling with them. ...

    Article : 224 words
  13. Souvenir

    WIDGE" McDERMID, a returned Digger of Palmer's Island (N.S.W.) is in possession of a souvenir which he collected in France 16 years ago. The ...

    Article : 114 words
  14. "At the Sign of--"

    "COORAMIN'S" par about strange names of hotels in this country recalls the still more quaint names of estaminets kept by the Froggies. I ...

    Article : 71 words
  15. "I'm No Nigger!"

    AMONG a crowd of us admitted to hospital in Oxford in November, 1915, was a young Maori, who, although only nineteen years of age, was a ...

    Article : 208 words
  16. "Boko" Comes Into His Own

    CONVALESCING in the South of England in the spring of '17, I found myself at a species of afternoon bun-fight given by the local notables to ...

    Article : 282 words
  17. Late James McCreadie

    IN the field of personal service much remains to be written, but there have been few personalities who have done more for the men of the A.I.F. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 263 words
  18. What Did The Gipsy Know?

    THE story of "Emak" ("S.W.," 198'33) prompts me to tell that, on my first Blighty leave, I went to Brighton with two old school mates, ...

    Article : 177 words
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