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  2. A Diggfer's diary (Conducted by "Non-Com.") WHERE WERE YOU

    Dear "Non-Com.."— You touched on my sore spot when you asked the above question in last week's diary. The only grouse I've got about the war is that I was on ...

    Article : 464 words
  3. Personal War Tales.

    Those of our readers who look cart in the Great War' are invited to send for publication short accounts of happenings with which, they themselves were concerned. The tales can be ...

    Article : 74 words
  4. "One-Armed Sutton."

    Gane to China as special war correspondent is "One-Armed Sutton," one of the world's greatest adyenturers. The latest advice is to the effect that he is missing ...

    Article : 409 words
  5. No Batons in Aussie Packs.

    The death of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson recently, and mention of the fact that he rose from the ranice in the regular army to the highest position in the ...

    Article : 227 words
  6. The Week's Best Yarn.

    The A.P.M. is un officer— a captain or major, young for his rank— and wears much trimmings. ...

    Article : 186 words
  7. Smile, Blow Yer, Smile!

    Dear "Non-Com."— At the war many humorous things were seen and many humorous documents were issued, but for sheer, unadulterated humour beat this. ...

    Article : 95 words
  8. On Chats.

    The only things that worried Blue on Gallipoli were chats. Before he enlisted he had carried his swag over most of Australia, and chats were not strangers to ...

    Article : 248 words
  9. A "MARIE CELESTE" PARALLEL.

    We are told that truth is stranger than fiction. Sometimes it is. At Bonnay, down on the Somme in March, 1918, the 10th and llth A.M.C. ...

    Article : 237 words
  10. On Parade.

    The Press sub-branch will hold its quarterly dinner at the Soldiers' Institute on Saturday night next. It will take the from of an Irish Night (following St. ...

    Article : 154 words
  11. The Things That Mattered in a "Rummy" War.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 227 words
  12. A Dinkum "Old Soldier."

    Dear "Non-Com."— Does the Old Sixteenth possess the oldest living survivor in W.A. of the World War? At Irishtown, a few miles from [?] ...

    Article : 353 words
  13. The Western Front.

    William Charles Green, on March 4; late 28th Battalion, A.I.F. Henry Vere Poulett-Harris. on ...

    Article : 35 words
  14. MOTHER WAS RIGHT.

    Isolated in a dead-end trench at Steele's Post in August, 1915, we found our stock of rations terribly short and the whole twenty of us ravenously hungry. Heavy ...

    Article : 148 words
  15. Four-Footed Comrade.

    Paying a tribute to the horse in "Molern Crusaders," a war book about the Light Horse in Syria and Palestine. Major W. S. Kent Hughes says they were ...

    Article : 307 words
  16. Advertising

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    Advertising : 44 words
  17. THE PURSUIT.

    Although it was a boiling hot day when we pulled into Port Said for coal, orders were issued that on no account would shore leave be granted. That was no good ...

    Article : 148 words
  18. THE CRIME.

    Whilst serving under Colonel Royston in South Africa it was an unwritten law that an Aussie must always have a horse get it honestly if you could, but, ...

    Article : 96 words
  19. 51st— Atten-shun!

    Dear "Non-Com.,"— I was extremely pleased to read in your issue of February 2 a par, "A 51st Battalion March," contributed by Mr. J. H. Wilkinson, an ...

    Article : 160 words
  20. "Bob's" Two V.C.'s.

    Dear "Non-Com.,"— Re "Another NonCom.'s" letter re double V.C.'s. I think Lady Roberts would not require permission to wear her dead son's V.C.. and the ...

    Article : 93 words
  21. GOING — GONE!

    We were salvaging duckboards. sandbags, and other impedimenta near Fricourt early in the 1916 winter, "Sniper" was loaded like a pack-mule, and did not ...

    Article : 75 words
  22. To a Correspondent

    "Omrah," Mullalyup.— Call next time you are in town. A Digger's Diary Is continued on the Inside Back Cover. ...

    Article : 21 words
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