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Article : 75 wordsNext Tuesday is Anzac Day, the eighteenth anniversary of the immortal Landing, when Digger and Tommy scrambled ashore on Gallipoli to take part ...
Article : 290 wordsThe 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 wordsWhenever 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 wordsDear "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 wordsEspionage, 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 wordsI 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 wordsAfter 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 wordsThe 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 wordsReuben C. Pritchard, on March 22; late A.I.F., and secretary Cardiff sub-branch, R.S.L. William Courtis, on April 8; ...
Article : 42 wordsIn 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 wordsDear "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 wordsDoes 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 wordsIn 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 wordsDear "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. ...
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Advertising : 46 wordsThree 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 wordsDiggers 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 wordsBert 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 wordsDuring 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 wordsA.H., Holleton.—Many thanks for your sympathetic letter. ...
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Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), Thu 20 Apr 1933, Page 2
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