DIGGER 91

CONTENTS

Articles

Lieut Clarence Roy Thorsen MM, 32^nd Bn & 8^th LTMB, John Aitken                                   3-5

A Digger’s initiative in 1918, as told by Gnr 37703 Raymond Fitzpatrick, 3^rd FAB                5

Pte 683 Herbert Tippett, 37^th Bn: account of a trench raid in 1918, Graeme Hosken      6-12

AN&MEF Nurses – Part 2, Greg Knight                                                                                  13-26

Memories of Digger days’ soldier identified as Pte 7525 Timothy Martin, 1^st Bn, Spare Corp, and Graeme Hosken                                                                                                         27-28

Sgt 959 Norman Polinelli, 12^th Bn, Andrew Pittaway                                                           29-32

John Laffin Memorial History Prize presentation & Pte 4414 Charles Laffin’s request for letters, Peta Segbedzi, Lambis Englezos, and Sue Tongue                                                        33

The 1916 diary of Lieut Robert Pickup, 13^th & 45 ^th Bns, Part 1: 21 Feb-31 May,
contrib. by Neville Browning.                                                                                                    34-42

Successful joint meeting of the Gallipoli Association, FFFAIF and WFA held in Sydney,
Paul Simadas.                                                                                                                                      42

Arthur Henry Kiesey, a sailor in two world wars, Graeme Hosken                                   43-47

Poem and profile: Capt Leigh Simpson, 3^rd  LH Fld Amb & 3^rd Sqn AFC, Evan Evans  48-50

‘Innocents abroad’ – Dvr 5877 Harold Malcolm, AASC & AEC, found on Trove             51-53

Catching up with Dvr Harold Malcom: 2^nd Lieut Lionel Gordon MC & Seaman Henry Malcolm, RAN, found on Trove                                                                                                 53-55

Pte 311 Leslie Gordon Walsh, 31^st Bn, Geoffrey Benn                                                            56-57

1920 letter regarding Capt Leo Drinkwater, 45^th Bn, Mrs Elly Drinkwater (mother)          57

Diaries of L/Cpl 2063 William Lycett, 4^th Fld Amb & 15^th LROC, Vol III (1917), Part 6,
contrib. by Tim Lycett                                                                                                                 58-60

Pte 2129 Louis de Decker, 11^th Bn, Graeme Hosken and Heather Ford                            61-64

The wartime memoirs of Pte 2485 George Ross Freeman, 5^th & 57^th Bns, Part 1, Enlistment to
Anzac Cove, contrib. by Bill Freeman                                                                                     65-68

The Cole brothers of Mogriguy, Stephen Brooks                                                                   69-71

‘Letters from France,’ Chs I & II, CEW Bean, contrib. by Anne Carroll,
Introduction by Paul Simadas                                                                                                   72-75

Regular features

Trench Talk and Contact/Membership details                                                                             2

AIF humour from ‘Memories of Digger days,’ and ‘A Digger’s diary,’ The World’s News &
The Western Mail                                                                                                   26, 28, 32, 55, 60

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