DIGGER 71

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 service record 7

Pte 4033 Leslie Essington Gow, 30 Bn, Peter Tremain 8-10

Extract from 16 Bn unit war diary after attack at Mouquet Farm , Lieut-Col EJ Park 10

Letter from Spr 9924 Norman Meston MM, 9 FCE, found on Trove 11

Pte 442 Leslie George Gane, 35 Bn, Bob McKnight, Barry Stevenson & Graeme Hosken 12-13

Raid on Stormy Trench , Pte 6320 Stanley Stephens, 13 Bn 14-16

Pte 6230 Stanley Stephens, 13 Bn, Helen Thompson 16-17

The stretcher-bearers: Use of morphine (blue cross) tablets, contrib. by Bill Durrant 17

Dvr 18172 Russell Dumas Barton, 11 FCE, Geoff Lewis 18

Brothers: CSM 1733 Edmund John Morcom, 21 /24 Bns/Aust Conv Depot, and Pte 3443 Stanley Morcom, 39 Bn, Ron Morcom, Graeme Hosken and Heather Ford 19-26

Mother’s letter re : Dvr 2043 Michael Lynam, 5 DAC, from service record 26

Pte 104 Denis Buckley, 8 MG Coy, Bill Durrant 27

Red Dust (memoirs of a light horseman), Chapter 2 , Tpr 3073 John Gray, 6 LHR 28-35

Brothers, Pte 1107 Herbert Joseph Atkins, 7 Bn, and Pte 50 Charles Arthur Atkins, 16 Bn/4 MG Bn, Geoff Lewis 36-40

Death of Pte 587 Frederick Burns, 41 Bn, L/Cpl 669 John Norman Hill MM & Chaplain John Edward Norman Osborn MC 40

Pte 2867 Louis Hollingworth Bluhdorn, 56 Bn, Frances Bluhdorn 41-44

Pte 1167 David George Mills, 8 Bn, Brett Arnfield 45-47

L/Cpl 2586 Herman Ernest Coath, 2 Bn/1 MG Bn, Graeme Hosken 48-67

Dvr 2106 Arthur Younie, 1 LHR/5 DAC, Geoff Lewis 68-70

Pte 3195 Chesney Pitt, 48 Bn , Peter Norton and Graeme Hosken 71-74

 

Regular features

Trench Talk and Contact/Membership details 2

AIF anecdotes: Memories of Digger days , The World’s News 6, 27,44, 47, 67, 70

Etched in Stone, Russell Curley and Jim Corkery 75

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