CONTENTS
Articles
Geoffrey Serle’s mistaken portrayal of Charles Bean in his biography of John Monash, Anne Carroll 3-11
A fallen Digger: Sgt 719 Walton Grayson DCM, 4th LHR, Andrew Pittaway 12-21
Christmas billies 1916: thank-you letters from Pte 2315 Joseph Cook, 4th LHR, and his
wife, found on Trove 21
An anti-tank gun at Villers-Bretonneux, from 30th Bn magazine, sourced by Bill Durrant 22
They Simply Fade Away (Part 1), Chs 1 & 2, Pte 2759A John Williamson, 48th Bn 23-31
Snapshot of the 17th Bn (No. 2): Pte 588 William Jackson VC, Greg Smyth 31
Sister Rebecca Williams, AANS, Mike Davis 32-34
Diaries of L/Cpl William Lycett, 4th Fld Amb, Vol II (1916), Part 8, contrib. by Tim Lycett 35-38
Pte 3309 Thomas Henry Herket, 2nd & 53rd Bns, Patrick Bourke & Graeme Hosken 39-41
Spr 21880 Keith Tweedy, 8th FCE, & his father, Hon Lieut Robert Tweedy, Red Cross Society, Nora Mines & Graeme Hosken 41
Patrolling No-man’s land stories: ‘On Patrol’ by Alexander Eaton & ‘Night Patrol’ by Jas. Pollard, found on Trove 42-45
Spr 19274 Robert Raw, 1st Signal Squadron, Graeme Hosken 46-47
1915 letter: Cpl 1009 Bryan Francis, 10th Bn, found on Trove 48-52
Memoir: ‘France. The Trench. The Hell Babes & Some Others,’ Sgt 805 Charles Harris MM, 42nd Bn 53-68
The 16th Battalion and the Gallipoli Landing, Neville Browning OAM 69-72
1915 and 1916 letters relating to Capt John Wesley Blacket, 27th Bn, found on Trove 73
A Digger and his bride, Heather Ford & Graeme Hosken 74
Regular features
Trench Talk and Contact/Membership details 2
AIF humour: ‘Memories of Digger days’ & a cartoon 11, 45, 47
Etched in Stone, Russell Curley and Jim Corkery 75