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Above: The western entrance to Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, the grounds of the Australian National
Memorial and the Sir John Monash Centre, taken July 2018. Courtesy of Louise Coman.
March 2019 No. 66
Magazine of the Families and Friends of the First AIF Inc
Edited by Graeme Hosken
ISSN 1834-8963
DIGGER 76 Issue 66
‘Dedicated to Digger Heritage’
The purpose of the FFFAIF is to commemorate the service, sacrifice, courage and
suffering of the First Australian Imperial Force of the Great War 1914-1918 and of their
families and friends.
DIGGER 66 Contents
Articles Memoirs of the 47
th Battalion, Major John T Jones MC, RMO 47th Bn (AAMC) 3-18
Major Harold Charles Howden MC & Bar, 13th
, 45th
& 48th
Bns, Graeme Hosken 19-24
For Valour: forgotten VCs of Russia 1919: Sgt Pearse & Cpl Sullivan, Geoff Lewis 25-27
Gallant death of Pte 1019 Henry Carseldine, 27th
Bn, Chaplain WJ Stevens, 27th Bn 27
SA war artists: H Septimus Power & Pte 17954 John Charles Goodchild, Judith Green 28-29
Soldier poet: L/Sgt Leon Gellert, 9th
FAmb, Judith Green 29-31
Letters: Pte 266 Robert Orchard, 2nd
FAmb & Sgt 2479 Noel Brinkley, 27th
Bn, from Trove 31
The Duffin brothers: Pte 856 George, 18th
Bn & Pte 391 Richard Duffin, 19th
Bn, G Hosken 32-36
Soldier’s letter 1916: Pte 4473 Roy Ryan, 1st Bn, found on Trove 36
To save a comrade’s life: Pte 3021 Matthew Sowden, 45th
Bn, contrib. by Angie Little 37
Colour spread, photos contrib. by J Skene, D Roubroeks, C Laignel, L Coman, G Hosken 38-39
Memoirs of Pte 2369 Verdi Schwinghammer, 42nd
Bn (Part 4), edited by Graeme Hosken 40-45
Pte 2851 Daniel McKenzie, 42nd
Bn, Graeme Hosken 46
Gallipoli samurai: Sgt 754 Harry Freame, Brian Tate, contrib. by Bill Durrant 47-51
The work of the 2nd
Pioneer Battalion in 1918, some figures from Neville Browning’s book 51
19 July men: Cpl 1252 Alfred Tuck, 29th
Bn & Cpl 1520 William Ryan, 31st Bn, Geoff Lewis 52-58
Colonel Reynell & the 9th
LHR at Hill 60, Tpr 788 WC Dunstall, 9th LHR, 5th DAC, 13th FAB 58
Lieut Alfred Farleigh MC, 33rd
Bn, Graeme Hosken and John Skene 59-61
Tpr 2954 Garnet Mawbey, 7th
LHR, Trevor Munro 62-64
Sydney University men in the Great War & work of John Le Gay Brereton, John Ramsland 65-74
Regular features
Trench Talk and Contact/Membership details 2 Etched in Stone, Russell Curley and Jim Corkery 75
FFFAIF website: www.fffaif.org.au. Also find us on Facebook. Membership/subscription enquiries: Via website or phone 02 6882 6270.
Direct correspondence to: FFFAIF Inc, PO Box 4245, FORSTER NSW 2428.