{"id":14132,"date":"2022-03-12T08:57:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T22:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=14132"},"modified":"2022-03-12T08:57:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T22:57:18","slug":"digger-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=14132","title":{"rendered":"DIGGER 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CONTENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14129\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-78-mar-2022-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"794\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-78-mar-2022-Cover.jpg 794w, https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-78-mar-2022-Cover-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-78-mar-2022-Cover-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIGGER_Front_pages\/digger-78-mar-2022-Cover-768x1086.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Memoirs of Pte 1172 Clifford Sharman, 26th Bn, Part 1, Owen Cook\u00a0 3-14<\/p>\n<p>Analysis of the 4th Machine Gun Battalion at Hamel, 4 July 1918, Greg O\u2019Reilly\u00a0 15-19<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Sorry, you two Australian Mums\u2019: the death of Gnr 3513 Stanley Pearson, 1st FAB HQ, at Cape Helles, Michael Crane and Bernard de Broglio\u00a0 20-26<\/p>\n<p>1916 letter: Tpr 1314 John Briscoe, 2nd LHR, found on Trove\u00a0 26<\/p>\n<p>Pte 5415 Matthew McGann, 23rd Bn, Graeme Hosken\u00a0 27-31<\/p>\n<p>1918 letter: Sgt 1710 John McRae, 48th Bn, found on Trove\u00a0 31<\/p>\n<p>Red Dust (memoirs of a light horseman), Chapter 9, Tpr 3073 John Gray, 6th LHR\u00a0 32-35<\/p>\n<p>1918 letter: Pte 2828 John Hudson, 42nd Bn, found on Trove \u00a035<\/p>\n<p>Pte 1235 Job Sheldon, 34th Bn, Bill Durrant \u00a036<\/p>\n<p>Bandsman 2161 Ted McMahon stops the war, Neville Browning \u00a037<\/p>\n<p>Colour centrespread 1: Cemeteries and memorials on the Western Front, Heather Ford \u00a038<\/p>\n<p>Colour centrespread 2: War memorials in Wagga Wagga, contrib. by Greg Davis \u00a039<\/p>\n<p>The Wagga Wagga Memorial Arch, contrib. by Greg Davis \u00a040<\/p>\n<p>WWI Diggers buried in Cairns Pioneer Cemetery, Greg Knight\u00a0 41-48<\/p>\n<p>Ross Bastiaan\u2019s Mouquet Farm plaque, John Skene and Graeme Hosken \u00a048<\/p>\n<p>Sgt 525 Cyril Kirby MM, 31st Bn, Mick James, Peter Nelson and Ann Kirby \u00a049<\/p>\n<p>Gallipoli diary of Pte 106 Harry Cicognani, Part 3 (final), contrib. by Robyn Smith \u00a050-56<\/p>\n<p>Spr 2426 Frederick Leslie Sainty, 14th FCE, Graeme Hosken &amp; Trevor Edwards\u00a0 57-66<\/p>\n<p>Diaries of L\/Cpl William Lycett, 4th Fld Amb, Vol II (1916), Part 5, contrib. by Tim Lycett\u00a0 59-60<\/p>\n<p>Pte 2017 Alfred Wright, 25th Bn, contrib. by Jillann Kerr\u00a0 71-73<\/p>\n<p>1918 letter: Pte 2312 Thomas Brown, 4th MG Sqn, found on Trove \u00a074<\/p>\n<p><strong>Regular features<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trench Talk and Contact\/Membership details \u00a02<\/p>\n<p>AIF anecdotes from Memories of Digger days, \u2018The World\u2019s News\u2019 &amp; Cartoon from \u2018Smith\u2019s Weekly\u2019\u00a0 37, 56, 66, 70<\/p>\n<p>Etched in Stone, Russell Curley and Jim Corkery\u00a0 75<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONTENTS Articles Memoirs of Pte 1172 Clifford Sharman, 26th Bn, Part 1, Owen Cook\u00a0 3-14 Analysis of the 4th Machine Gun Battalion at Hamel, 4 July 1918, Greg O\u2019Reilly\u00a0 15-19 \u2018Sorry, you two Australian Mums\u2019: the death of Gnr 3513 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=14132\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digger-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=14132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14134,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions\/14134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}