DIGGER

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.