DIGGER 90

CONTENTS

Articles

Pte 2007 George Thomas Littleboy, 42^nd Bn, identified, Andrew Pittaway                        3-6

Winning machine-gun team, 12^th Bde Sports Meeting, Anzac Day 1917, Greg O’Reilly       6

Lieut Walter Edward Shiells MC, MID, 6 ^th & 58 ^th Bns, contrib. by Anthony Jones        7-12

Pte 4972 Ernest Rolland Touzel, 15^th & 46 ^th Bns, Stephen Learmonth                            13-16

Postscript: How and where did Ernest Touzel die? Graeme Hosken and Peter Benson 16-19

Memories of other days, NU, MM (probably L/Cpl 4571 James Norman Usher, 3^rd Bn) 20-21

Empire soldiers in London, 1916, found on Trove                                                                      21

Pte 1785 Reginal Patrick Bartley & Pte 705 Patrick James Bartley, 33^rd Bn, Peter Bartley                                                                                                                                                              22-26

‘Murray’s Diary: An Anzac Story,’ invitation to FFFAIF members to attend a play
based on WWI letters, Mark Wilmott, with thanks to John Payne                                        26

They Simply Fade Away (Part 7, final), Chs 25-27, Pte 2759A John Williamson, 48^th Bn,
found on Trove. Williamson reflects on the past and future, and his CO, Col Raymond Leane.                                                                                                                                             27-33

Pte 1922 Henry Woodward, 42nd Bn & Pte 3385 George Woodward, 41^st Bn, Geoffrey Benn                                                                                                                                               34-37

Diaries of L/Cpl William Lycett, 4th Fld Amb, Vol III (1917), Part 5, contrib. by Tim Lycett                                                                                                                                                           38-40

Brothers from Fremantle: Pte 4811 Luke Flanagan, 48th Bn, Sgt 24580 Edgar Francis
Flanagan, 3rd DAC & Lieut Edwin George Flanagan, 35th Bn, Andrew Pittaway         41-44

1915 letter: Pte 594 Robert Gregor, 7^th Bn, found on Trove                                                      44

Poems: ‘Kisses for the Turk,’ ‘Gallipoli,’ and ‘Gilgandra Begins It,’ Del W McCay        45-48

Saying it with Flowers – floral-themed postcards from WWI, John Aitken                    49-51

1916 letter from Mesopotamia, the forgotten front, Sgt 7713 Arthur Ernest Pell                  51

The Commemorative Grove of trees at historic Tuggeranong Homestead and the residence
of CEW Bean and his staff, 1919-1925, contrib. by Rebecca Lamb of MOTH Inc           52-60

L/Cpl 2590 Michael Doohan MM, 51^st Bn, Stephen Brooks                                                 61-63

Six Australian recipients of the Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise, Sue Tongue 64-67

‘A narrow escape,’ Pte 220 John Harold Falconer, 18^th Bn, Neil Falconer                              67

Pte 962/Gnr 10056 Sydney James LeServe, 2^ndBn, 3^rd FAB, 1^st AAH, Graeme Hosken 68-75

Pte 1486 Cecil William Hincks, 35^th Bn, Bill Durrant                                                                  75

Regular features

Trench Talk and Contact/Membership details                                                                               2

AIF anecdotes from Memories of Digger days, ‘The World’s News’                     12, 19, 48, 63