Category Archives: DIGGER Magazine

CONTENTS Articles Australian Reponses to the Outbreak of War, 1914, Sophie Briggs, 2021 JLMHP recipient  3-6 1917 letter: Lieut Col Richard Fitz-Gerald DSO, 24th Bn, found on Trove  6 Memoirs of Pte 1172 Clifford Sharman, 26th Bn, Part 2 (final), … Continue reading →

CONTENTS Articles Memoirs of Pte 1172 Clifford Sharman, 26th Bn, Part 1, Owen Cook  3-14 Analysis of the 4th Machine Gun Battalion at Hamel, 4 July 1918, Greg O’Reilly  15-19 ‘Sorry, you two Australian Mums’: the death of Gnr 3513 … Continue reading →

CONTENTS Articles Tour of a 35th Bn Company in the front line at Ypres, 1917, ‘Detonator’, AWM collection  3-6 Postscript: 35th Bn men killed 29 Sept to 4 Oct, 1917, Stephen Brooks  6-7 3rd Division AIF rest schedule, Mjr Gen … Continue reading →

  CONTENTS Articles 2nd Lieut William Harold Treloar, AFC, Heather Ford  3-9 Sister Ella Lord, AANS, contrib. by Faye Threlfall  10-12 1916 letter: L/Cpl 1524 Frederick McCann, 15th Bn, found on Trove  12 Pte 1515 Eugene Sullivan, 9th Fld Amb, … Continue reading →

CONTENTS Articles The PNG grave of Lieut Col Maurice Wilder-Neligan, 9th & 10th Bns, Greg Knight 3-7 Dvr 2098 Cecil Barram, 5th FAB, Lynora Conley 8-12 Nurses at the wartime wedding of Sr Nell Pike and Cpl 4414 Charles Laffin, … Continue reading →

Contents Articles L/Cpl 9641 Edward McCoy, AASC/43rd Bn, Peter Bartley 3-5 1918 letter: Pte 7444 George Parry, 42nd Bn, found on Trove 6-7 WWI poems of Spr NX6925 Herbert Beros, 2/6 FC RAE, Greg Knight 8-10 The Manly War Memorial, … Continue reading →

Contents Articles Family connections: Pte 4642 Robert Erickson, 13th Bn; Pte 2361 Harry Le Clerc, 3rd Bn; Sgt 639 Arthur Le Clerc, 13th Bn; Pte 13805 Harold Le Clerc, 4th FAmb; Spr 9902 Thomas Le Clerc, 9th FCE, L/Cpl 1528 … Continue reading →

Contents Articles Cpl 4633 Marcus Anderson, 11th Bn/2nd FSC RE, Andrew Pittaway 3-15 Pte 44 George Bonney, 32nd Bn, contrib. by Reg Bonney 16 Armistice Day 1918 memories, Pte 813 Jack White, 4th MG Bn 17 The work of the … Continue reading →

Contents Articles L/Cpl 1612 Edwin Joseph King, 19 /36 /33 /34 Bns, Bill Durrant 3-6 Pte 3747 John Forrest, 10 Bn, Stephen Brooks 7 Letter from Base Records to next of kin of Pte 4942 J White, 16 Bn, from … Continue reading →

  Contents Articles Pte 3406 John Forrest, 54 Bn, contrib. by Katrina Forrest Giebels 3-6 Letter from Pte 836 Norman Parker, 9 Bn (1), found on Trove 6 L/Cpl 2104 John McDonald, 36 Bn, Bill Durrant 7-8 The TOC H … Continue reading →