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  2. Personal War Tales.

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

    Article : 75 words
  3. A Digger's Diary (Conducted by "Non-Com.") Anzac Day.

    Next Tuesday is Anzac Day, the eighteenth anniversary of the immortal Landing, when Digger and Tommy scrambled ashore on Gallipoli to take part ...

    Article : 290 words
  4. THE WEEK'S BEST YARN.

    The tucker at Parkhouse camp, in Blighty, was not dished out with a too liberal hand, and Nugget was always on his feet when the Orderly Officer came ...

    Article : 87 words
  5. Soldiers' Banter.

    Whenever units passed each other in France there was generally a battle—of wits! In "Forward with the Fifth," the history of the Fifth Australian battalion ...

    Article : 152 words
  6. A Prophetic Passage.

    Dear "Non-Com."—In an old edition (1898) of "Spinifex and Sand," by David W. Carnegie, I came across a prophetic passage as regards the then unborn A.I.F. ...

    Article : 204 words
  7. WHY DO SPIES TAKE ON THE JOB?

    Espionage, as everyone knows, is rather a hazardous occupation in war time and one wonders whether those who take [?]e job on do so by order from someone higher ...

    Article : 315 words
  8. Eggs-a-Cook!

    I often hear queries as to tue origin of the term "Eggs-a-Cook," which members of the Third Division, A.I.F., have to live down. The following account may be of ...

    Article : 391 words
  9. About Cabbages—and Kings!

    After mentioning a private matter to me, "Ex-Digger," from Holleton, writes:— "Dear 'Non-Corn'.—Unfortunately, I have never yet had the pleasure [?] making ...

    Article : 382 words
  10. Creating "Torphies."

    The art of creating "furphies" is a gift. I've met some of the best furphy manufacturers that ever stepped into khaki. In fact, I must confess that I've even started ...

    Article : 545 words
  11. The Western Front.

    Reuben C. Pritchard, on March 22; late A.I.F., and secretary Cardiff sub-branch, R.S.L. William Courtis, on April 8; ...

    Article : 42 words
  12. An Aussie Sentry.

    In one of the Australian billets in 1918 it was found necessary to put a sentry over a hatchway near the wash-house, in order to prevent unseemly jostling and waste of ...

    Article : 274 words
  13. AUSSIE INITIATIVE.

    Dear "Non-Com."—I doubt if the official history of the late war has chronicled the fact that some Australian engineers were in training for some months at the ...

    Article : 192 words
  14. The Old Squire.

    Does the mind of the digger ever go back to the old chants which were so much the vogue in the A.I.F.? One of the best was known as "The Old Squire." ...

    Article : 200 words
  15. MAKE WAY FOR ONE WHO CAN!

    In the Paschendaele operations a shell landed on the headquarters of a certain Australian battalion and wounded its colonel in the head. It was not a very ...

    Article : 158 words
  16. The War on Poultry.

    Dear "Non Com."—In giving the Diggers' Page o£ "The Western Mail" the once-over, it is pleasing to note that there were others who had similar experiences. ...

    Article : 631 words
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  18. At the Dressing Station.

    Three days and nights on trek, then a delicious night's sleep. But we were up at 4.30 a.m. next day and on the move again. At about 10.30 we reached the site ...

    Article : 455 words
  19. Rank and File.

    Diggers generally will welcome the announcement that Colonel H. B. Collett, in response to a unanimous appeal from the State executive of the R.S.L., will ...

    Article : 181 words
  20. A JOKE UNCALLED FOR.

    Bert Thompson had a distorted sense of humour from which even his best cobbers were not safe. After special duty at Baizieux one night ...

    Article : 122 words
  21. ONLY A SMALL ONE.

    During the war years a Tommy who was being trained near his own home obtained a day's leave on several occasions to dig up his garden. One day he was ...

    Article : 87 words
  22. To a Correspondent.

    A.H., Holleton.—Many thanks for your sympathetic letter. ...

    Article : 11 words
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