{"id":12809,"date":"2019-01-04T13:54:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T03:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?page_id=12809"},"modified":"2019-01-04T13:54:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T03:54:58","slug":"digger-56","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?page_id=12809","title":{"rendered":"DIGGER 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-56-sep-2016-Cover.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12662 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-56-sep-2016-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTENTS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Articles<\/strong><br \/>\nFromelles Speech \u2013 2016, Gov-Gen and FFFAIF Patron-in-Chief, Sir Peter Cosgrove, AK MC 2<br \/>\nThe Great War: Recollections by Captain Tom Mann, 2nd Bn, Tom Mann, cont. by T Mann 3-39<br \/>\n\u2018Unselfish courage\u2019: Boys from the 7th LHR, Stephen Brooks 40-42<br \/>\nSoldier\u2019s letter, 1917, WOI George Whiteford, 2nd LHFAmb 42<br \/>\n\u2018A lonely soldier\u2019: Tpr 173 William Samson, 7th LHR, Graeme Hosken and Frev Ford 43-46<br \/>\nSgt 606 Arthur Coolahan, 28th Bn, Andrew Pittaway 47-48<br \/>\nLetters home: Lieutenant Colonel Walter Dollman, 27th Bn, cont. by Walter Dollman, g\u2019son 48<br \/>\nFor Valour: Anzac VC Recipients on the Western Front, 1916, Part 2, Geoff Lewis 49-53<br \/>\nThe McKenna brothers, Stephen Brooks 54-55<br \/>\nSoldiers\u2019 letters, 1917, Pte FW Ford, 19th Bn and Pte E Millard, 18th\/3rd Bns 55<br \/>\nDiaries of L\/Cpl William Lycett, 4th F Amb\/15th LROC, Part 7, contributed by Tim Lycett 56-61<br \/>\nFFFAIF Commemorative Tour of the Western Front 2016, some highlights 61<br \/>\nNurse Eva Olive Eggleston, AANS, Dianne Strahan and Val McKenzie 62-67<br \/>\nMemories of the 2015 Coo-ee March re-enactment, Margo Piggott 68-73<br \/>\nPte 2626 Leonard Bolitho, 46th Bn, Jenny Chapman and Trevor Munro 74<br \/>\n<strong>Regular features<\/strong><br \/>\nTrench Talk and Contact\/Membership details 2<br \/>\nDIGGER Quiz No. 56: AIF battalion commanders and C-words, Maurice Campbell 46<br \/>\nAnswers to DIGGER Quiz 67<br \/>\nEtched in Stone, Russell Curley and Jim Corkery 75<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONTENTS Articles Fromelles Speech \u2013 2016, Gov-Gen and FFFAIF Patron-in-Chief, Sir Peter Cosgrove, AK MC 2 The Great War: Recollections by Captain Tom Mann, 2nd Bn, Tom Mann, cont. by T Mann 3-39 \u2018Unselfish courage\u2019: Boys from the 7th LHR, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?page_id=12809\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12662,"parent":10,"menu_order":56,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12809","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12809","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=12809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12810,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12809\/revisions\/12810"}],"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\/12662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}