DIGGER 68 Contents
Articles
The Simmonds brothers: Ptes 5180 Francis, 3 Bn; 2982 Edward, 55 Bn; 3469 David, 46 & 55 Bns and 3465 James, 46 , 55 & 3 Bns, Stephen Holding 3-4
Tpr 1464 George Alfred Elmes, 5 LHR, Barry Stevenson 5-7
Anzac Centenary resources: a national guide , Sue Tongue 8-9
Pte 2395 Frederick Edward Shaw, 34 Bn, Bill Durrant 10
Cowra’s Great War Memorial Grove, Robyn and Geoff Lewis 11
‘Russian-Anzacs’ from Rockhampton, Trevor Munro 12-17
Report on the 2019 John Laffin Memorial Lecture Day , Paul Simadas 18
Letters from Pte 355 Billy Sing MM, CdG, 5 LHR/31 Bn & Pte 730 Victor Rodda, 41 Bn, 1916-17, found on Trove, contrib. by Graeme Hosken 19-20
Tpr 204 Thomas Francis Weathers, 9 LHR, Graeme Hosken 21
Memoirs of Pte 2369 Verdi Schwinghammer, 42 Bn, Part 6 , edited by Graeme Hosken 22-28
Clearing the battlefields after the war, found on Trove, contrib. by Bill Durrant 28
Pte 2467 Edward Dowling MM, 1 LHR & L/Sgt 1348 Claude Dowling MM, 3 Bn, Dianne Strachan & Val McKenzie 29-30
Pte 3040 Frederick Thomas Lindbeck, 1 LHR/1 Bn, ICC, Geoff Lewis 31-32
How Germany’s effort to ruin French soil actually enriched it, contrib. by Bill Durrant 33-34
Gnr 1495 Athol Percy, 1 /53 Bns, 25 & 13 FABs, Graeme Hosken and Rebecca Percy 35-46
For Valour: The NZ VC recipients 1918 (Part 2 and final) , Geoff Lewis 47-55
The ‘Big Push’ 1918, Sgt 482 Henry Belford, 19 Bn, found on Trove 56
The 1918 diary of Pte 3126 Stanley George Tidmarsh, 44 Bn, (Part 1: Jan to July), Kerry Patman & Graeme Hosken 57-69
‘Conscripts’ in the AIF : the work of the 1916 Exemption Courts, Graeme Hosken 70-72
Capt Donald Austin, AAMC Dental Details, Trevor Munro 73-74
A different view of Pte John (‘Barney’) Hines , Graeme Hosken & Colin Wentworth-Perry 74
Regular features
Trench Talk and Contact/Membership details 2
Memories of Digger Days, The World ’s News 4, 30, 32, 56, 69
Etched in Stone, Russell Curley and Jim Corkery 75