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 John Monash, contrib. by Bill Durrant 7
Diaries of L/Cpl William Lycett, 4th Fld Amb, Vol II (1916), Part 4, contrib. by Tim Lycett 8-11
L/Sgt 4028 Archie Long MM, 1st Pnrs/4th Bn, Trevor Munro 12-14
Pte 4029 Edward Long, 4th Bn & 1st Pnrs, Trevor Munro 15-16
1918 letter: Pte 5468 Herbert Banks, 14th Bn, found on Trove 16
Account of a raid by men of the 34th Bn, May 1917, Lieut Ernest Shannon, Unit war diary 17
A lucky escape at Treux for Pte 469 Charles Oakhill MM, 3rd MG Bn, 3rd MG Bn Unit war diary for May 1918 18-19
Cpl 2413 Cornelius Mahony, 17th Bn, Phillip Mahony & Graeme Hosken 20-22
Roll call of Mahony relatives in the Great War, contrib. by Bernadette Mahony 22
1915 letter: L/Cpl 72 Eugene Mahony, 2nd Bn, contrib. by Bernadette Mahony 23
Gallipoli diary of Pte 106 Harry Cicognani, 1st Fld Amb, Part 2, CH Cicognani 24-31
13th Fld Amb stretcher-bearers captured at Mouquet Farm, POW statements, NAA 32-37
Red Dust (memoirs of a light horseman), Chapter 8, Tpr 3073 John Gray, 6th LHR 38-42
1918 letter: Sgt 5826 Robert Danaher, 17th Coy AASC, found on Trove 42
Fromelles, 19 & 20 July 1916: The ‘battle’ classified as an ‘attack’, Geoffrey Benn 43-55
1918 letter: T/Sgt 3685 Leslie Best, Corps Sig Coy, found on Trove 55
Pte 1874/1764 Charles Boylan, 1st Bn & post-war soldier-settler, Graeme Hosken 56-58
1916 letters: Pte 82 James Sheehan, 30th Bn & Dvr 97 John Johnstone, 8th LHR, from Trove 58
1918 letter: Pte 6408 Duncan Spence, 23rd Bn, found on Trove 68
‘Egyptian hospitals’: The care of our gallant wounded, HT Ferrar, 1915 59-60
Pte 1076 Joseph Burns, 19th Bn, Graeme Hosken, Sean McManus & Peter Benson 61-68
Humour amid Anzacs, ‘Irwin Index’ 1953, found on Trove 69-71
Lieut Ralph Doughty MC, 3rd FAB, at Pozieres, diary extracts contrib. by Peter Kivell 71
1918 Christmas dinner in Belgium, Pte 959 Thomas Dwyer MM, 24th Bn, found on Trove 72
Report on the 2021 John Laffin Memorial Lecture by Meleah Hampton, Paul Simadas 73
1918 letter: Pte 2312 Thomas Brown, 4th MG Sqn, found on Trove 74
Regular features
Trench Talk and Contact/Membership details 2
AIF anecdotes: ‘Memories of Digger days’, ‘The World’s News’19, 31
Etched in Stone, Russell Curley and Jim Corkery 75