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 Stanley Pearson, 1st FAB HQ, at Cape Helles, Michael Crane and Bernard de Broglio 20-26
1916 letter: Tpr 1314 John Briscoe, 2nd LHR, found on Trove 26
Pte 5415 Matthew McGann, 23rd Bn, Graeme Hosken 27-31
1918 letter: Sgt 1710 John McRae, 48th Bn, found on Trove 31
Red Dust (memoirs of a light horseman), Chapter 9, Tpr 3073 John Gray, 6th LHR 32-35
1918 letter: Pte 2828 John Hudson, 42nd Bn, found on Trove 35
Pte 1235 Job Sheldon, 34th Bn, Bill Durrant 36
Bandsman 2161 Ted McMahon stops the war, Neville Browning 37
Colour centrespread 1: Cemeteries and memorials on the Western Front, Heather Ford 38
Colour centrespread 2: War memorials in Wagga Wagga, contrib. by Greg Davis 39
The Wagga Wagga Memorial Arch, contrib. by Greg Davis 40
WWI Diggers buried in Cairns Pioneer Cemetery, Greg Knight 41-48
Ross Bastiaan’s Mouquet Farm plaque, John Skene and Graeme Hosken 48
Sgt 525 Cyril Kirby MM, 31st Bn, Mick James, Peter Nelson and Ann Kirby 49
Gallipoli diary of Pte 106 Harry Cicognani, Part 3 (final), contrib. by Robyn Smith 50-56
Spr 2426 Frederick Leslie Sainty, 14th FCE, Graeme Hosken & Trevor Edwards 57-66
Diaries of L/Cpl William Lycett, 4th Fld Amb, Vol II (1916), Part 5, contrib. by Tim Lycett 59-60
Pte 2017 Alfred Wright, 25th Bn, contrib. by Jillann Kerr 71-73
1918 letter: Pte 2312 Thomas Brown, 4th MG Sqn, found on Trove 74
Regular features
Trench Talk and Contact/Membership details 2
AIF anecdotes from Memories of Digger days, ‘The World’s News’ & Cartoon from ‘Smith’s Weekly’ 37, 56, 66, 70
Etched in Stone, Russell Curley and Jim Corkery 75