{"id":14793,"date":"2023-06-03T22:28:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T12:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=14793"},"modified":"2025-05-25T23:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T13:32:06","slug":"digger-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=14793","title":{"rendered":"DIGGER 81"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Geoffrey Serle\u2019s mistaken portrayal of Charles Bean in his biography of John Monash, Anne Carroll\u00a0 3-11<\/p>\n

A fallen Digger: Sgt 719 Walton Grayson DCM, 4th LHR, Andrew Pittaway\u00a0 12-21<\/p>\n

Christmas billies 1916: thank-you letters from Pte 2315 Joseph Cook, 4th\u00a0 LHR, and his<\/p>\n

wife, found on Trove\u00a0 21<\/p>\n

An anti-tank gun at Villers-Bretonneux, from 30th Bn magazine, sourced by Bill Durrant\u00a0 22<\/p>\n

They Simply Fade Away (Part 1), Chs 1 & 2, Pte 2759A John Williamson, 48th Bn\u00a0 23-31<\/p>\n

Snapshot of the 17th Bn (No. 2): Pte 588 William Jackson VC, Greg Smyth\u00a0 31<\/p>\n

Sister Rebecca Williams, AANS, Mike Davis 32-34<\/p>\n

Diaries of L\/Cpl William Lycett, 4th Fld Amb, Vol II (1916), Part 8, contrib. by Tim Lycett\u00a0 35-38<\/p>\n

Pte 3309 Thomas Henry Herket, 2nd & 53rd Bns, Patrick Bourke & Graeme Hosken\u00a0 39-41<\/p>\n

Spr 21880 Keith Tweedy, 8th\u00a0 FCE, & his father, Hon Lieut Robert Tweedy, Red Cross Society, Nora Mines & Graeme Hosken\u00a0 41<\/p>\n

Patrolling No-man\u2019s land stories: \u2018On Patrol\u2019 by Alexander Eaton & \u2018Night Patrol\u2019 by Jas. Pollard, found on Trove\u00a0 42-45<\/p>\n

Spr 19274 Robert Raw, 1st Signal Squadron, Graeme Hosken \u00a0\u00a046-47<\/p>\n

1915 letter: Cpl 1009 Bryan Francis, 10th Bn, found on Trove\u00a0 48-52<\/p>\n

Memoir: \u2018France. The Trench. The Hell Babes & Some Others,\u2019 Sgt 805 Charles Harris MM, 42nd Bn\u00a0 53-68<\/p>\n

The 16th Battalion and the Gallipoli Landing, Neville Browning OAM\u00a0 69-72<\/p>\n

1915 and 1916 letters relating to Capt John Wesley Blacket, 27th Bn, found on Trove \u00a073<\/p>\n

A Digger and his bride, Heather Ford & Graeme Hosken \u00a074<\/p>\n

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

Trench Talk and Contact\/Membership details \u00a02<\/p>\n

AIF humour: \u2018Memories of Digger days\u2019 & a cartoon \u00a011, 45, 47<\/p>\n

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

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