DIGGER 26

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CONTENTS:

Cover photo: 55^th Battery, 36^th HAG

Trench Talk & contact details

Messages in a bottle (55^th Btn men)

A unique Anzac experience (Mackay NHS)

Pte Mark Smith (Drice) & the Lone Pine

Major JM Lean and Base Records Office

William Tompkins, 107^th Howitzer Bty

Swimmers of the First AIF

Cpl Stratford Bird, 34^th Btn

The Kettering Bug

CQMS James Bryant MM, 8^th & 60^th Btns

‘Pozieres’, Sgt P Kinchington MM, 3^rd Btn

Ten killed at Morchies (11^th Btn men)

CEW Bean’s ‘Cairo dispatch’

Lieut. Fourdrinier, 2^nd Btn

Mystery of Soldier 16650

Trooper Arthur Sorreson, 7^th LHR

Marseilles to Le Havre, Bill Lyall, 8^th Bty

First Digger to die on Western Front

The broom stick bomb (11^th LHR)

Australian Boy Scouts in the Great War

48^th Btn History being written

‘Jacka VC story’, TA White, 13^th Btn

‘Posed as a Digger’, Reveille article 1928

Statistics on the First AIF

Pte Ernest Lee (Jeffries), 5^th Btn & 1^st Pnrs

New NAA website for WWI researchers

Trooper Rupert Draper, 1^st LHR

‘The Pallbearers’ (Anzac Provost Corps)

Why ‘Montauban’? W Berryman, 15^th FCE

Etched in Stone

Comfort Funds gift (B McColl, 12^th LHR)

Digger Quiz No. 26

Digger Quiz No. 26 Answers