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

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    "What d'yer want ter worry for? If yer name's on the b[?]arsted thing you'll get it!" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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    DIGGER (about to go to outpost) : Why d'yer keep remindin' me ter get me flares up quick, when Fritz opens up? N.C.O.: To give us a fair go back in the trench. We're bettin' on what goes up first -- you or the flares! ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. DIGGERS

    WAITING at R. S. S. I. L. A. Sydney. 'Phone M3741. Accountant: J. A. Black, costing, auditing, and office routine. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. Interesting Souvenir

    CHARLIE THOMPSON, of the 13th Battalion, has one of the most interesting souvenirs [?] have ever seen. It is the bullet and obstruction ...

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  7. True Comradeship

    DIED recently in Timaru, New Zealand, "Punch" Houlihan, brave soldier, good all-round sport, and a wonderful humorist. ...

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  8. Stiff Luck!

    THE stiffest luck I ever saw in four years on various fronts was that experienced by the crew of an observation balloon on the Somme, in 1917. ...

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  9. Bill's Greeting

    "BILL the --" Commandant of No. 1 Compound in France, was well known to many delinquent diggers who spent either a long or short duration ...

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  10. Boot Was a Cache

    DURING the leather exhibition in Melbourne, one of the exhibits was an old boot with a unique history. ...

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  11. Strike-Breaking

    TOURING the Egyptian provinces after the Armistice, to help quell the Gyppo rising, our regiment camped near a native village, the occupants of ...

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  12. Fritz Humor

    A STOKES Mortar section came into our sector, and proceeded to erect the gaspipe, while their commander argued the toss with the company ...

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  13. A Hero Returns

    ONE winter's night in 1919 I sat with a few commercials in a compartment of the Melbourne-Sale train. Looking out the window at Yarragon ...

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  14. French Leave at Colombo

    WHO remembers the French leave at Colombo, going over in January, 1915? For many reasons, pleasant, and otherwise, I guess some of those who ...

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  15. The Dash Hound

    WONDER how many of No. 10 platoon, "C" Company, 52nd Battalion, remember the Dash Hound? (The two slushies who teased him with a bone ...

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  16. Winning Effort

    ON board s.s. "Runic," ex Portsmouth., December 22, 1918, cot and walking cases were being returned to Austr[?]a. To keep them interested, the ...

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  17. Under the Mud

    RAIN, good, soaking, solid, incessant rain, for about eleven months of the year in France had reduced, the place to a sea of mud, the inhabitants ...

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    OFFICER: Have you shaved this morning? DIGGER: Yes, sir. OFFICER: Then have another one, and stand a bit closer to the razor! ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  19. "PLONK"

    WHENEVER I see cheap wine on sale, my mind goes back to Salonika and 1916. The boys were celebrating when ...

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  20. Still Cheerful

    ONE of the most cheerful Diggers in Randwick (Sydney) Military Hospital is Bert Oakley, known to his pals there as the "human sieve." Bert has ...

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  21. Posted Missing At "Smith's"

    ANY Digger who went across on the troopship "Marathon," which left on May 4, 1916, and who later served with him in C. ...

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  22. "Scraplron's" Lapse

    THE story has never been told of how "Scrapiron," the Major's batman, attained the rank of sergeant over night. We were out in billets, and the ...

    Article : 159 words
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