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), Owen Cook 7-17
The 4th Division’s first trench raid on the Western Front, Pte 5362A Alan Davies, 14th Bn 18-19
A Parish Remembers – St Alban’s Epping honours WWI Servicemen, Julie Evans 20-23
Maclean’s Memorial to the Dead, Greg Towner 24-28
1917 letter: Pte 2823 Percy Ferguson, 13th Bn, found on Trove 28
Gnr 28302 George Yeend, 2nd FAB, and AB Norman Yeend, RAN, contrib. by Ron Horton 29-31
Report on the 2022 John Laffin Memorial Lecture, Jim Munro 31
Seers father and son (2758 Lambert, 30th Bn & 2831 George, 4th Bn), Stephen Brooks 32-33
1917 letter: Pte 2145 Ivo Smith, 8th LTMB, found on Trove 33
Diaries of L/Cpl William Lycett, 4th Fld Amb, Vol II (1916), Part 6, contrib. by Tim Lycett 34-37
Who was Pte 582 Vognsen buried in Beach Cemetery, Gallipoli? Dean Sherringham 38-39
Foreign-born volunteers in the AIF by country of birth, Dean Sherringham 40
Red Dust (memoirs of a light horseman), Chapter 10, Tpr 3073 John Gray, 6th LHR 41-52
Prisoner of war experience: Lieut John Edwards MM, 50th Bn, found on Trove 53-54
Tribute to Dvr 1959 Frankie Willis by Sgt 3530 Frank Wormald, 14th FAB, Jenny Burchell 55-60
1917 letter: Sgt 3112 Vincent Grinlington, 48th Bn, found on Trove 60
Pte 1621/4508/6939 Lewis Tingay, 7th, 23rd & 22nd Bns, Trevor Munro and Graeme Hosken 61-63
Sgt 2795 John Edward Salter, 7th Bn, Jillann Kerr, Graeme Hosken and Peter Benson 64-67
1915 letter: Pte 944 John Salter, 11th Bn, found on Trove 68-70
Pte 1577 Alfred E Fletcher (Francis E Flitcroft), 1st Bn, Sean McManus and Graeme Hosken 71-74
1917 letter: Sgt Mjr 11360 James Sheppard, AASC, found on Trove 74
Regular features
Trench Talk and Contact/Membership details 2
AIF anecdote: ‘Memories of Digger days’, ‘The World’s News’ 37
Etched in Stone, Russell Curley and Jim Corkery 75