CONTENTS
Articles
The ‘Foote soldiers’ of Ipswich, Sue Tongue 3-7
AIF books written by member, Jeff Peirce, Jeff Peirce 7
Pte 571 Thomas Arthur Ward, 33rd Bn, Bill Durrant 8-9
Who was EG Skinner? Greg Smyth 9
Pte 6877 Frederick John Alexander MM, 3rd Bn, Graeme Hosken & Nicole Alexander 10-13
The 1916 diary of Lieut Robert Pickup, 13th & 45 th Bns, Part 2: 1 Jun-30 Aug,
contrib by Neville Browning 14-21
1915 letters written soon after the Landing: Sgt 597 Clarence Marshall, 12 th Bn &
Pte 991 Thomas Bowers, 10 th Bn, found on Trove 21
Pte 146 Charles James Bradley, 11th Bn, John Aitken 22-31
Possible photo of William Lycett at Kandahar Farm, Tim Lycett 31
Diaries of L/Cpl 2063 William Lycett, 4 th Fld Amb & 15 th LROC, Vol III (1917), Part 7,
contrib. by Tim Lycett 32-34
Yelverton Street at War, Graeme Hosken 35-44
Letter mystery: Pte 338 George William Condon, 25 th Bn, found on Trove,
research by the Editor 44
Pte 2564A Alfred Donald Blanch, 25 th & 9 th Bns, Geoffrey Benn 45-46
The wartime memoirs of Pte 2485 George Ross Freeman, 5 th & 57 th Bns,
Part 2, Gallipoli and the Canal Zone, contrib. by Bill Freeman 47-50
Pte 1433 John Dunbar, 13 th Bn & Pte 2035 John Beech: the same man,
Raben Dunbar & David Harrower 51-52
WO1 1246 Joseph William Osborn DCM, 23 th Bn, Trevor Munro 53-55
Pte 498 Thomas Henry Taylor, 16 th Bn, Graeme Hosken and Matthew Dent 56-59
Second photo featuring the ‘unknown Norm’, contrib. by Sean McManus 59
The 38 th Stationary Hospital and the AANS, Heather (Frev) Ford 60-67
The Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, and its precinct, Peter Bartley 68-70
1914 newspaper article: ‘The early days of enlistment,’ The Sydney Morning Herald,
found on Trove 71
‘Letters from France,’ Chs III & IV, CEW Bean, contrib. by Anne Carroll 72-75
Pte 2007 Alfred Scott, The Kennedy Regiment, letter found in NAA file,
research by the Editor 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 34, 44, 67, 70
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