{"id":14119,"date":"2022-03-12T08:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T22:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=14119"},"modified":"2022-08-08T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T00:47:04","slug":"digger-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=14119","title":{"rendered":"DIGGER 77"},"content":{"rendered":"

CONTENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tour of a 35th Bn Company in the front line at Ypres, 1917, \u2018Detonator\u2019, AWM collection\u00a0 3-6<\/p>\n

Postscript: 35th Bn men killed 29 Sept to 4 Oct, 1917, Stephen Brooks\u00a0 6-7<\/p>\n

3rd Division AIF rest schedule, Mjr Gen John Monash, contrib. by Bill Durrant\u00a0 7<\/p>\n

Diaries of L\/Cpl William Lycett, 4th Fld Amb, Vol II (1916), Part 4, contrib. by Tim Lycett\u00a0 8-11<\/p>\n

L\/Sgt 4028 Archie Long MM, 1st Pnrs\/4th Bn, Trevor Munro\u00a0 12-14<\/p>\n

Pte 4029 Edward Long, 4th Bn & 1st Pnrs, Trevor Munro\u00a0 15-16<\/p>\n

1918 letter: Pte 5468 Herbert Banks, 14th Bn, found on Trove\u00a0 16<\/p>\n

Account of a raid by men of the 34th Bn, May 1917, Lieut Ernest Shannon, Unit war diary\u00a0 17<\/p>\n

A lucky escape at Treux for Pte 469 Charles Oakhill MM, 3rd MG Bn, 3rd MG Bn Unit war diary for May 1918\u00a0 18-19<\/p>\n

Cpl 2413 Cornelius Mahony, 17th Bn, Phillip Mahony & Graeme Hosken\u00a0 20-22<\/p>\n

Roll call of Mahony relatives in the Great War, contrib. by Bernadette Mahony\u00a0 22<\/p>\n

1915 letter: L\/Cpl 72 Eugene Mahony, 2nd Bn, contrib. by Bernadette Mahony\u00a0 23<\/p>\n

Gallipoli diary of Pte 106 Harry Cicognani, 1st Fld Amb, Part 2, CH Cicognani\u00a0 24-31<\/p>\n

13th Fld Amb stretcher-bearers captured at Mouquet Farm, POW statements, NAA\u00a0 32-37<\/p>\n

Red Dust (memoirs of a light horseman), Chapter 8, Tpr 3073 John Gray, 6th LHR\u00a0 38-42<\/p>\n

1918 letter: Sgt 5826 Robert Danaher, 17th Coy AASC, found on Trove\u00a0 42<\/p>\n

Fromelles, 19 & 20 July 1916: The \u2018battle\u2019 classified as an \u2018attack\u2019, Geoffrey Benn\u00a0 43-55<\/p>\n

1918 letter: T\/Sgt 3685 Leslie Best, Corps Sig Coy, found on Trove\u00a0 55<\/p>\n

Pte 1874\/1764 Charles Boylan, 1st Bn & post-war soldier-settler, Graeme Hosken\u00a0 56-58<\/p>\n

1916 letters: Pte 82 James Sheehan, 30th Bn & Dvr 97 John Johnstone, 8th LHR, from Trove\u00a0 58<\/p>\n

1918 letter: Pte 6408 Duncan Spence, 23rd Bn, found on Trove\u00a0 \u00a068<\/p>\n

\u2018Egyptian hospitals\u2019: The care of our gallant wounded, HT Ferrar, 1915\u00a0 59-60<\/p>\n

Pte 1076 Joseph Burns, 19th Bn, Graeme Hosken, Sean McManus & Peter Benson\u00a0 61-68<\/p>\n

Humour amid Anzacs, \u2018Irwin Index\u2019 1953, found on Trove\u00a0 69-71<\/p>\n

Lieut Ralph Doughty MC, 3rd FAB, at Pozieres, diary extracts contrib. by Peter Kivell 71<\/p>\n

1918 Christmas dinner in Belgium, Pte 959 Thomas Dwyer MM, 24th Bn, found on Trove 72<\/p>\n

Report on the 2021 John Laffin Memorial Lecture by Meleah Hampton, Paul Simadas 73<\/p>\n

1918 letter: Pte 2312 Thomas Brown, 4th MG Sqn, found on Trove 74<\/p>\n

Regular features<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trench Talk and Contact\/Membership details\u00a0 2<\/p>\n

AIF anecdotes: \u2018Memories of Digger days\u2019, \u2018The World\u2019s News\u201919, 31<\/p>\n

Etched in Stone, Russell Curley and Jim Corkery\u00a0 75<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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