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  2. A Digger's Diary (Conducted by "Non-Com.") Blighty Appreciation.

    The following letter to the Editor is published because I want all readers to answer the question which I ask in the footnote:— ...

    Article : 446 words
  3. John Gettingby Passes On.

    One of the well-known [?]fures in early Blackboy was John Gettingby, who answered the last roll-call at Wagin on November 1, aged 64. He bad been a ...

    Article : 213 words
  4. A War Idyll.

    Bandy became interested in a mam'selle in a little village as soon as the battalion took up billets there. "Yer know," he confided to his cobbers sharing his table ...

    Article : 730 words
  5. Personal War Tales.

    Those 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 [?] ...

    Article : 401 words
  6. Field Service Post Card—Next War!

    With the operation orders for the 22nd Battalion reunion, held recently over East, a Field Service Postcard was included for reply. It is much more suitable for the ...

    Article : 187 words
  7. A Gift to Kemal Pasha.

    The British Government recently presented Mustapha Kemal Pasha, president of the Turkish Republic, and the officer who played a dominating part in the ...

    Article : 157 words
  8. Lake Grace Digger.

    A few personalities among the Lake Grace diggers met with on my recent trip: Jack Collinson (Mining Corps), the local sub-branch president, whose confidence ...

    Article : 800 words
  9. GASSED AT MONS!

    This little dialogue from James Lansdale Hodson's "North Wind" may tickle others as it tickled me:— When Proust declared one morning "I ...

    Article : 159 words
  10. A Warm Stomach.

    Soon after O'Leary, a native of Balahooley, or some such place, arrived in Aussie from the Emerald Isle, the war broke out, and he joined up with the ...

    Article : 119 words
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  12. COMPRE, DIG!

    'Even though the incident happened more than fifteen years ago, Major-Genera Rosenthal ia bouud to remember it. It happened in one of his earliest billets in ...

    Article : 110 words
  13. No False Modesty!

    Dear "Non-Com."—The story published recently in the Digger's Diary when the whole parade fell out on the order "Fall out the gentlemen," had its parallel on a ...

    Article : 85 words
  14. The Origin of "Yellowbelly."

    Dear "Non-Com."—Being a regular reader of "A Digger's Diary," I noticed your question about the meaning of the pen-name of a correspondent, who signed ...

    Article : 169 words
  15. Abdul Learns His Lesson.

    On his arrival in Cairo Blue was met by the usual troop of Gyppo guides, and decided that one might be usefull. His selection was confirmed by a "reference" ...

    Article : 131 words
  16. Rank and File.

    There are a good number of ex-service men prospecting around Mount Magnet, on the Murchison, most of them developing claims on the deep lead which was the ...

    Article : 165 words
  17. MUST DRAW THE LINE.

    Major Saunders, of the A.F.A., was one of the best-liked officers in the unit, and his batman was greatly envied his job. On the night of a big shivoo for the ...

    Article : 111 words
  18. Unknown Soldiers.

    The bodies of nearly 500 unknown soldiers were found on the Western Front in one month—May—of this year, over thirteen years after the last shot was fired. ...

    Article : 138 words
  19. SYNOVITIS.

    The Aussies were not the only people who called a spade anything but a spade. The following was overheard in the Woolwich (Eng.) Hippodrome in 1918. ...

    Article : 66 words
  20. "Old Contemptibles."

    The first meeting of the West Australian branch (provisional) of the Old Contemptibles' Association will be hold at the Soldiers' Institute, Perth, on Monday. ...

    Article : 109 words
  21. On Parade.

    The armistice service at Mount Magnet was held as usual this year with simple solemnity. Bugler Norman Watson, of the 8th Light Horse, sounded the "Last ...

    Article : 78 words
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