{"id":12807,"date":"2019-01-04T13:52:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T03:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?page_id=12807"},"modified":"2019-01-04T13:52:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T03:52:35","slug":"digger-55","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?page_id=12807","title":{"rendered":"DIGGER 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-55-jun-2016-Cover.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12661 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-55-jun-2016-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTENTS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Articles<\/strong><br \/>\nPte 2228 Edgar Robards, 13th Bn, &amp; the 4th Brigade in August 1915, Dean Sherringham 3-17<br \/>\nCpl 2604 Athol Kirkland, 34th Bn, Andrew Pittaway 18-21<br \/>\nMembership reminder for 2016\/17: summary of renewal information 21<br \/>\nEssendon\u2019s \u2018Three Musketeers\u2019: Stones, Walker and Elliot, Ross McMullin 22-25<br \/>\nDiary of Pte 4393 Alexander Wallace, 29th Bn (Part 3, final), courtesy Stephanie Smyth 26-28<br \/>\nPte 4432 Victor Backhouse, 54th Bn, Greg Swinden 29-30<br \/>\nJohn Hamilton VC statue for Orange; Hamilton genealogy, contrib. by Richard Castine 30<br \/>\nDiaries of L\/Cpl William Lycett, 4th F Amb\/15th LROC, Part 6, contributed by Tim Lycett 31-36<br \/>\nLlew, Reg and Ray Jones, brothers in the 14th Bn, Faye Threlfall and Graeme Hosken 37-41<br \/>\nLetter from the Front, 1916, Pte 2600 Charles Cowley, 7th Bn 41<br \/>\n4th Class Naval Staff Clerk Royal Mungovan, Greg Swinden 42-43<br \/>\n\u2018Little Willie\u2019 and Sgt McDuff, Lieut Col M Purser, 30th Bn 43<br \/>\nLieutenant Colonel Lancelot Fox Clarke DSO, VD, 12th Bn, Andrea Gerrard 44-52<br \/>\nLetter from the Front, Sgt 7652 Robert Donaldson, 5th FAB 52<br \/>\nLetter after Pozieres, Pte 4539 HG \u2018Harry\u2019 Hartnett, 2nd Bn 53-55<br \/>\nFor Valour: Anzac VC Recipients on the Western Front, 1916, Part 1, Geoff Lewis 56-64<br \/>\nLetter from the Front, 1916, Cpl 108 Charles Scott, 2nd LHR 64<br \/>\nThree GW Lloyds in the AIF, Graeme Hosken 65-66<br \/>\nLetters from the Front, 1916: Sgt 1887 John Booth; Pte Denis McMahon 66<br \/>\nThe Memorial Tree: the Smiths brothers of Geelong, Barry Abley 67-69<br \/>\nSpr 411 Samuel Bolitho, 4th MG Coy, Jenny Chapman and Trevor Munro 70-72<br \/>\nLetter from the Front, 1917, Sgt Roy Warwick, 34th Bn 72<br \/>\nL\/Cpl 4371 Walter Bray, 18th Bn, Greg Swinden 73-74<br \/>\nRegular features<br \/>\nTrench Talk and Contact\/Membership details 2<br \/>\nDIGGER Quiz No. 55: The Army Postal Service, Maurice Campbell 25<br \/>\nAnswers to DIGGER Quiz 69<br \/>\nEtched in Stone, Russell Curley and Jim Corkery 75<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONTENTS Articles Pte 2228 Edgar Robards, 13th Bn, &amp; the 4th Brigade in August 1915, Dean Sherringham 3-17 Cpl 2604 Athol Kirkland, 34th Bn, Andrew Pittaway 18-21 Membership reminder for 2016\/17: summary of renewal information 21 Essendon\u2019s \u2018Three Musketeers\u2019: Stones, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?page_id=12807\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12661,"parent":10,"menu_order":55,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12807","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12808,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12807\/revisions\/12808"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}