DIGGER 94

Articles

L/Sgt 1997 Abel Skinner DCM, 25 ^th Bn, Geoffrey Benn                                                           3-6

CSM 1708 Reginald Wilthew, 36 ^th & 33^rd Bns, Bill Durrant                                                    7-8

A Snipe in Port Macquarie, Greg Knight                                                                                    9-12

The French Somme Medal, Peter Bartley                                                                                      13

The ‘Cane Beetle’ March of April 1916 (Mooliba to Cairns), Greg Knight                         14-17

The wartime memoirs of Pte 2485 George Ross Freeman, 5 ^th & 57 ^th Bns,
Part 4, Illness and England, contrib. by Bill Freeman                                                           18-21

Tpr 1643 Samuel McArdle, 1^st   LHR, Peter Bartley                                                              22-25

McArdle Postscript 1: The mystery of Gum Grove, Beersheba , Graeme Hosken                26

McArdle Postscript 2: Samuel McArdle’s letter to Mrs Johnston, Graeme Hosken            27

The Taylor brothers: Cpl 678 Alfred Edward Taylor, 9 ^th & 49 ^th Bns; Cpl 2704 Harold Taylor, 26 ^th Bn, Graeme Hosken, letters found on Trove                                                   28-45

Diaries of L/Cpl William Lycett, 4 ^th Fld Amb, Vol III (1917),
Part 9, contrib. by Tim Lycett                                                                                                    46-48

Pte 6584 Jack Turner, 3^rd Bn, Graeme Hosken                                                                            49

Oran Park streets named after Diggers, Sue Tongue                                                            50-55

Solace from reading, Sue Tongue                                                                                                    55

Dvr 13 Thomas Trueman Jones, 7^th Bn, contrib. by Rebecca Lamb                                   56-58

Bathurst’s war trophies, Graeme Hosken and Peter Benson                                               59-65

Postscript: What happened to Pte 2812 Hunsley Moore? Letters from Pte 10586/2839 Sidney Williams, AIF HQ & AROC, Graeme Hosken                                                            65-68

Red Cliffs war trophy, Graeme Hosken                                                                                         68

More examples of larger war trophies, www.phototimetunnel.com                                        69

1916 letter: Pte 10586 Sidney Williams, AIF HQ , & 1919 news item, found on Trove   70-71

1917 letter: Pte 6066 Frederick McGrath, 32^nd Bn, found on Trove                                         72

‘Letters from France,’ Chapters VII & VIII, CEW Bean, contrib. by Anne Carroll          73-75

Regular features

Trench Talk and Contact/Membership details                                                                               2

AIF anecdotes from Memories of Digger days, ‘The World’s News’     6, 8, 12 , 27, 45, 71, 72

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