CONTENTS
Articles
The ANZAC Buffet, Sydney, Greg Knight 3-5
The famous photograph of men of the 9th Field Ambulance, Greg Ogle 6-8
1916 letter: Pte 576 George Howard MM, 20th Bn, found on Trove 9
Photograph of John Lyons Gray, author of ‘Red Dust’, contrib. by Evan Evans 9
Pte 2627A Reginald Chapman, 49th Bn, Graeme Hosken 10
Airman RW Coutts describes a battle in the air, found on Trove 11-13
Postscript: Sgt 1682 Roy Whitcombe Coutts, 57th Bn AIF, later lieutenant, RFC and 7th 14-16
Bedford Infantry Regiment, British Army, Graeme Hosken
Australian troops returning on the Empress of Asia via the Panama Canal, Cherie Gibbs 16
Pte 453 Robert Hennessey, 34th Bn, David Harrower 17
Chivalry in No-man’s land, contrib. by Geoffrey Benn 18-20
Postscript: letters to Base Records Office from Mrs Driscoll, Graeme Hosken 21-22
Scott Post in Polygon Wood, courtesy of Nick Mol 22
Straight socks, Bill Durrant 23
Tpr 536 Peter Almond, 6th LHR, Graeme Hosken 24-25
Welcome home at Macedon: an unexpected reply, found on Trove 25
Pte 145 Alexander Kippen, 9th Bn, Graeme Hosken and Bev Cameron 26-31
Order of claim to the 1967 Gallipoli Medallion, found in NAA record 31
Diaries of L/Cpl William Lycett, 4th Fld Amb, Vol II (1916), Part 9, contrib. by Tim Lycett 32-35
Turkish monument to bravery, Barry Stevenson 35
Wartime diary of Pte 2823 Albert Horton, 41st & 44th Bns, Sue Tongue & Graeme Hosken 36-50
They Simply Fade away (Part 2), Chs 3-5, Pte 2759A John Williamson, 48th Bn 51-58
Death of an Officer at Pozieres, Graeme Hosken 59-60
Pte 17277 Lawrence Brooks, 12th Field Ambulance, Jenny Shea 60-62
Cpl 1159 George Beamish Swanton, 24th Bn, David Harrower & Graeme Hosken 63
Lord Howe Island Diggers, Greg Knight 64-74
Regular features
Trench Talk and Contact/Membership details 2
AIF anecdotes from Memories of Digger days, ‘The World’s News’ 2
Etched in Stone, Russell Curley and Jim Corkery 75