DIGGER 43

Officers of the 52^nd Battalion, Andrea Gerrard

Trench Talk and Contact/Membership details

Corporal Robert Pittendrigh, ‘Molong Express’

Lance Corporal Arthur Hall MM & 2 Bars, 5^th Bn, Graeme Hosken

Gallipoli diary of Private 533 Frederick Heatley Symonds, 5^th Bn, Heather Ford

Private Ernest Worth, 27^th Bn: the shortest man in the AIF? Andrew Pittaway

The cost of the Great War to Euroa, Victoria, Steve Ager

Corporal Dugald Macpherson, ‘Molong Express’

Trooper Dennis Mychael, 1^st LHR, Harry Willey

DIGGER Quiz No. 43: Australian VCs of WWI

Private Valentine Rochfort, 9^th Field Amb (and brothers, Frank and Joe), Michael Rochfort

Alfred Samuels (54^th Bn) and Robert Samuels (54^th Bn, APC, 1^st Bn), Graeme Hosken

RSM John Raitt MM, CdeG, 17^th Bn, Trevor Munro

Private Alfred Vandenbergh, 6^th LHR, 14^th FAB, Judith Green

‘Bud the Monkey’ extract: Dogs assorted – Miss, Lin McDonald (courtesy Russell Curley)

Lieutenant James Wilson, 52^nd Bn, Yves Fohlen

Rail accidents in the AIF, Trevor Munro

Lance Corporal Marshall Way, 16^th Bn, Jenny Chapman

Narrative by Corporal Len Jones, 3^rd Bn, Part 5, Len Jones (courtesy Phillip Mannell)

Erle Boyd, RAN, Greg Swinden

Memento of Private William Cammack, 9^th Bn, Peter Roberts

Chickerell’s First World War Australians (UK marriages), George Lanning

Private Ernest Merriman, ‘Molong Express’

Aboriginal enlistments: Richard Martin and Albert Tripcony, Col Sutcliffe

Gunner Roy Dean, 36^th HAG, ‘Molong Express’

The reason for Fromelles, CEW Bean (courtesy Alan Kitchen)

Two AIF VCs and their graves: John Dwyer and Joergen Jensen, Tim Reynolds

Etched in Stone

‘Willaura’s Finest’ released; Photos of memorials in Victoria, Graeme Hosken

Answers to DIGGER Quiz No. 43