DIGGER 29

CONTENTS: 

Cover photo: Herbert Hampton and mates

Trench Talk & contact/membership details

Mutiny on the ‘Runic’

Christmas letters 1915

Sid Livesey (10th LHR) on Gallipoli

2009 FFFAIF AGM Report

Private David Smith, 2nd Btn

‘Over the Top’ released

‘Sticks’ and ‘Splinter’ (2nd  Btn ‘midgets’)

Extracts from the ‘Inglewood Advertiser’

Pte Thomas Harriss: killed in a London air raid

Sgt James Innes, 12th LHR & 5th DAC

The ‘dead letter depot’

The Murphys: father and son KIA at Fromelles

Pte Neil Penfold, 3rd  & 55th Btns

Alfred Stopher and William Wilson

Christmas letter 1916

Family tragedies (‘First to die’ series)

48th Battalion history released

Financial patriotism (WWI loan raising)

Battle of Broken Hill

Frank Dalton, 10th Btn & APC

Digger humour samples

Pte Frank Bernard, 17th Btn

Pte Alfred Chapman (letters)

Fromelles documentary makers seek material

Pte Harold Harding

Bdr Herbert Hampton, 1st FAB

Violet Robinson, VAD

Fovant Badges postcard

Lieut James Dalton, 7th LHR

Chief Gunner Albert Pickett, RAN

John Nelson (2nd Bn) & James Nelson (35th Bn)

Percy Smythe sketches

Pte Edgar Jarvis, 34th Btn

George Viner Wicks, AFC

‘Missing’ found in London Cemetery & Extn.

WOII George Fuzzard, 8th LHR, Part 3

11th LHR humour

Capt Lewis Andrews OBE, CTC

Mystery of AWM photo A01566 (W Pheasant)

Military history in Childers

Etched in Stone

DIGGER Quiz No. 29

Members’ forum report

DIGGER Quiz No. 29 Answers