Dear "Non-Com."—The good old "Western Mail" catches me up every week regularly—England, France, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Russia and so forth ...
Article : 597 wordsThose of our readers who took part 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 wordsA fortnight ago I gave the story of the "lost companies" of the 51st Battalion at Mouquet Farm. There was a case on Gallipolr where the remnants of a British ...
Article : 662 wordsAn illustration of the chivalry of the air was given at Montreal recently, when Colonel W. A. Bishop, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C., related how he became an honorary ...
Article : 160 wordsIt happened in Scotland, and in accordance with custom, the King was due to pay his annual visit to Balmoral Castle, where preparations for his arrival were in ...
Article : 249 words"What's that yer say? We're goin' bome? What skitin' stunt's on now? What blighter's puttin' that around? Some dirty, lyin' cow! ...
Article : 217 wordsArising out of the paragraph written by "Omrah," of Mullalyup, and published in this page under the above heading, I have to acknowledge the receipt of £1 ...
Article : 187 wordsThe W.O. of the horse transport was a bit of a veteran. He said so himself. He wore a South African ribbon on the left breast of his tunic; on either shoulder he ...
Article : 274 wordsIt was during the battle of Rafa and Trooper Cluuey's camel had just been blown to pieces by an aerial bomb. Returning from the firing line, Cluney was ...
Article : 108 wordsDesmond Sutton, on May 19; late 28th Battalion A.I.F. and member Fremantle City and District sub-branch R.S.L. ...
Article : 33 wordsAt a Convention held by the Amputations Association in Vancouver (B.C.) recently an ex-soldier named Charlie Crane: met another named "Gully" Christian. It ...
Article : 280 wordsThe official history of the A.I.F. during, 1917 (Volume 4) is now ready for issue. It deals with all the momentous efforts in Flanders during that year and ...
Article : 201 wordsDear "Non-Com."—After reading the account of the first dawn ceremony some few years ago I decided that before I left this planet I would attend one. ...
Article : 376 wordsDear "Non-Com.,"—Coming home on the troopship Euripides we used to discuss various subjects, among others the marksmanship of the Royal family. ...
Article : 182 wordsDear "Non-Com."—The article "Lagnicour and Mouquet Farm" in the "Digger's Diary" of May 11, was most interesting to me, as I was in both stunts. I saw ...
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Advertising : 49 wordsMr. W. H. Burrows, who was then a sergeant major and later a lieutenant in the Old Sixteenth tells a story about the evacuation of Gallipoli. The last pose ...
Article : 275 wordsThe sergeant instructor was taking a class of dud recruits in musketry. "Private Gunn," he said, with some wrath. "I just told you to take a fine sight, and you at ...
Article : 91 wordsThe State executive of the R.S.L. had one of its very infrequent "nights out," when the members entertained Colonel Collett at a dinner prior to his departure ...
Article : 308 wordsIt was at Poperinghe that Fritz dropped several bombs close to the Chinese Labour Corps compound, and the occupants broke away to the surrounding districts ...
Article : 78 wordsMembers of the Osborne Park subbranch, R.S.L., together with members of the local agricultural society, visited the Karrakatta Cemetery on a recent ...
Article : 107 wordsBill H., ex 28th. invalided home, was awaiting his turn for the M.O. when the matron remarked: "I suppose that you are a farmer, too." ...
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Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), Thu 1 Jun 1933, Page 2
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