{"id":13283,"date":"2020-07-14T11:11:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T01:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=13283"},"modified":"2020-07-14T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T01:16:12","slug":"digger-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=13283","title":{"rendered":"DIGGER 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-71-jun-2020-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13284\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-71-jun-2020-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"793\" height=\"1122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-71-jun-2020-Cover.jpg 793w, https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-71-jun-2020-Cover-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-71-jun-2020-Cover-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-71-jun-2020-Cover-724x1024.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>L\/Cpl 1612 Edwin Joseph King, 19 \/36 \/33 \/34 Bns, <em>Bill Durrant 3-6<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pte 3747 John Forrest, 10 Bn, <em>Stephen Brooks 7<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Letter from Base Records to next of kin of Pte 4942 J White, 16 Bn, <em>from service record 7<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pte 4033 Leslie Essington Gow, 30 Bn, <em>Peter Tremain 8-10<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Extract from 16 Bn unit war diary after attack at Mouquet Farm , <em>Lieut-Col EJ Park 10<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Letter from Spr 9924 Norman Meston MM, 9 FCE, <em>found on Trove 11<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pte 442 Leslie George Gane, 35 Bn, <em>Bob McKnight, Barry Stevenson &amp; Graeme Hosken 12-13<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Raid on Stormy Trench , <em>Pte 6320 Stanley Stephens, 13 Bn 14-16<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pte 6230 Stanley Stephens, 13 Bn, <em>Helen Thompson 16-17<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The stretcher-bearers: Use of morphine (blue cross) tablets, <em>contrib. by Bill Durrant 17<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dvr 18172 Russell Dumas Barton, 11 FCE, <em>Geoff Lewis 18<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brothers: CSM 1733 Edmund John Morcom, 21 \/24 Bns\/Aust Conv Depot, and Pte 3443 Stanley Morcom, 39 Bn, <em>Ron Morcom, Graeme Hosken and Heather Ford 19-26<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mother\u2019s letter re : Dvr 2043 Michael Lynam, 5 DAC, <em>from service record 26<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pte 104 Denis Buckley, 8 MG Coy, <em>Bill Durrant 27<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Red Dust (memoirs of a light horseman), Chapter 2 , <em>Tpr 3073 John Gray, 6 LHR 28-35<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brothers, Pte 1107 Herbert Joseph Atkins, 7 Bn, and Pte 50 Charles Arthur Atkins, 16 Bn\/4 MG Bn, <em>Geoff Lewis 36-40<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Death of Pte 587 Frederick Burns, 41 Bn, <em>L\/Cpl 669 John Norman Hill MM &amp; Chaplain John Edward Norman Osborn MC 40<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pte 2867 Louis Hollingworth Bluhdorn, 56 Bn, <em>Frances Bluhdorn 41-44<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pte 1167 David George Mills, 8 Bn, <em>Brett Arnfield 45-47<\/em><\/p>\n<p>L\/Cpl 2586 Herman Ernest Coath, 2 Bn\/1 MG Bn, <em>Graeme Hosken 48-67<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dvr 2106 Arthur Younie, 1 LHR\/5 DAC, <em>Geoff Lewis 68-70<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pte 3195 Chesney Pitt, 48 Bn , <em>Peter Norton and Graeme Hosken 71-74<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Regular features<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trench Talk and Contact\/Membership details 2<\/p>\n<p>AIF anecdotes: Memories of Digger days <em>, The World\u2019s News 6, 27,44, 47, 67, 70 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Etched in Stone, <em>Russell Curley and Jim Corkery 75<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contents Articles L\/Cpl 1612 Edwin Joseph King, 19 \/36 \/33 \/34 Bns, Bill Durrant 3-6 Pte 3747 John Forrest, 10 Bn, Stephen Brooks 7 Letter from Base Records to next of kin of Pte 4942 J White, 16 Bn, from &hellip; 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