{"id":9998,"date":"2011-07-02T14:48:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T14:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=9998"},"modified":"2011-07-02T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T14:59:28","slug":"fighting-nineteenth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=9998","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Nineteenth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Fighting Nineteenth<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong>History of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, AIF<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nWayne Matthews and David Wilson<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Fighting-Nieteenth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fighting Nieteenth\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Fighting-Nieteenth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Formed in Sydney in March 1915, 19<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion AIF, had many recruits who had already served with the Australian force that captured German New Guinea.<br \/>\nThis history covers training in Egypt, four months on Gallipoli, then defending the Suez Canal.<br \/>\nThe men then moved to the Western Front in France in early 1916 where it participated in all the major campaigns in France and Flanders.<br \/>\nA Victoria Cross was awarded, when Lieutenant Percy Storkey demonstrated his bravery at Hangard Wood in 1918 \u2013 and many other awards were made to battalion men.<br \/>\nThe authors, both FFFAIF members,\u00a0had access to private photographs, letters, diaries, the official history and war diaries. This also has a nominal roll and much biographical information on a CD that comes free with each book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>RRP $60<\/strong> available from:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The War Book Shop<br \/>\n13 Veronica Place,<br \/>\nLoftus. NSW<br \/>\nAustralia<br \/>\n02 9542 6771<\/p>\n<p>Contact the publishers at : <a href=\"mailto:warbookshop@bigpond.com\">warbookshop@bigpond.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>FFFAIF members<\/strong> contact Clive at the War Book Shop for a\u00a0<em><strong>Special Members Offer.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighting Nineteenth History of the 19th Battalion, AIF by Wayne Matthews and David Wilson Formed in Sydney in March 1915, 19th Battalion AIF, had many recruits who had already served with the Australian force that captured German New Guinea. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=9998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-members-first-aif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9998"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10008,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998\/revisions\/10008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}