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  2. UNOFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE [?]

    NOEL SOLDAT won a race at Moonee Valley (Vic.) the other day, and the happening recalled to many Light Horsemen that the little mademoiselle ...

    Article : 184 words
  3. IN POINT OF FACT

    LIEUT. BARNES was a very decent sort of chap for an officer, and used to do his best to dribble King's Regs into the mob a bit at a time. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 265 words
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    STRETCHER-BEARER : I thought, with your luck, if you tossed up a brown it would come down a quid. CASUALTY: Did yer? Well, I chucked up a bomb, and it came down a thumpin' big coal box ! ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 44 words
  5. ARMY ISSUES

    HAVE been waiting for someone to claim the record for long use of some army issue article. Well, I have a hair brush issued in September. 1915, ...

    Article : 97 words
  6. THE END OF A "CLINK"

    SOME Diggers will remember the "clink" at Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, which is being demolished The 28 concrete cells were built soon after ...

    Article : 177 words
  7. CUSHY JOBS

    LA GUERRE was over, warlike exercises were no longer necessary, so the A.I.F Education Scheme was floated, with the laudable intention of ...

    Article : 209 words
  8. Re-unions

    WEST CROYDON-KILLKENNY Sub Branch of R.S.L. is holding an Anzac eve social on April 24 at Herbert Street Club room. West Croydon, S.A ...

    Article : 292 words
  9. A Matter of Time

    TRANSPORT "A49" was ready to cast off From the wharf Mum and Dad cheered their soldier sons The Diggers, like a giant swarm of bees ...

    Article : 235 words
  10. Tokens Found

    A TOKEN was found at Werribee, Vic., bearing the following inscription "Private A. Christensen. A.I.F., killed in action, 12.4.1918. A token of memory ...

    Article : 122 words
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    FIRST DIGGER : Where does this lead to? SECOND DIGGER: Depends on what sort of life you've led in the past. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 21 words
  12. Tom Irish

    POOR Tom Irish has gone West. He kept a pub in Bundaberg, when the war broke out, but gave up the job of mine host to become one of the host ...

    Article : 124 words
  13. 9th BRIG. ANNIVERSARY

    AS this year is the 20th since the departure of the 9th Infantry Brigade (33rd, 34th, 35th and 36th Battalions, A.I.F. and other units) for the Great. ...

    Article : 236 words
  14. FAMOUS CHARGER

    A FAMOUS horse parades as a back at Melbourne's "Rotten Row," in the Botanic Gardens. Ben, by name, he acted as the model ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 222 words
  15. Digger Golfers

    RECORD entry of 524 for the State in the A.l.F. golf tournament at Manly (N.S.W.) is evidence that the Diggers have taken up the game ...

    Article : 206 words
  16. Water in the Head

    EXAMINING an old kit bag, I came across the following verses with the caption:--"A piece of poetry cut out in the ...

    Article : 178 words
  17. Timely Reminder

    THE Byron Bay sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. has decided to present a memorial clock to the re-modelled Literary Institute premises. It will be ...

    Article : 62 words
  18. Homing Donkey

    THE best medium of exchange piastre less Light Horsemen had in Palestine were the donkeys attached to some of the brigades. Owing to their ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 209 words
  19. Addresses Wanted

    THE official historian of the A.I.F. (Dr. C. E. W Bean) is anxious to gain touch with the undermentioned Diggers, and would be grateful if any ...

    Article : 222 words
  20. "Dunk" in a Bell Tem

    WHEN we were camped at Abbassia in Egypt, there was keen rivalry between our tent and the one next door Coming back one night from Cairo, just ...

    Article : 196 words
  21. Answers to Correspondents

    A J.M. (Barmera, S.A.): For further particulars concerning enlistments, rates of pay. etc., you. should write to the Officer. Commanding. Royal Tank Corps ...

    Article : 91 words
  22. Diggers Seeking Work

    WAITING at R.S.S.I.L.A., Sydney Phone M3741: ATTENDANT: H. A. Knight, ex. type 16 years' experience. ...

    Article : 140 words
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    IDENTIFIED ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1 words
  24. Posted Missing at "Smith's"

    EX-STRETCHER-BEARER TOURNIER and Alf. Blake, formerly 3rd Pioneer Battalion. A.l.F, Addresses wanted by A. E. Middleditch. Wolseley Street. ...

    Article : 133 words
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