The W.A. Digger Book: Difference between revisions

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The WA Diggers Book was compiled by the West Australian Branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League in 1929.
Colonel H B Collett
An impression of the State War Memorial in King's Park, Perth
Lieut-General Sir John Monash
Lieut-General Sir Harry G Chauvel
Lieut-General Sir J Talbo T Hobbs
Bulls Road, the Somme, in January 1917
The RSSILA in Western Australia
The State Executive of the RSL in 1929
Watching the flying fish from the troopship.
Graves of Australians at Flers.
The 1st Light Horse Brigade passing over sand hills at Esdud, in January, 1918.
Captured Turks at Anzac
Frederick William Bell and Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell
Thomas Leslie Axford and James Park Woods
Clifford William King Sadlier and John Carroll
Charles Pope and Henry William Murray
Alfred Edward Gaby and Martin O'Meara
Lawrence Dominic McCarthy
Recruiting scenes in 1914
Memories of Black boy Hill
Engineers in camp at Guildford, 1916
The insurgence of Windy Weston
Australians, Scots and Gurkhas were comrades-in-arms at Anzac.
Let each man answer -Roll call and retrospect
The farewell march of the 28th Battalion along St George's Terrace, Perth, in 1915.
A burial service at Anzac
Turkish prisoners after the victories in Palestine.
Essay on Two-Up
A digger and the sphinx
Retribution
Duckboard fatique in France
Anzac Beach
An observation balloon at Neuve Eglise, France
Corbie Canal, France, in 1917
All that glitters
Songs of the Great War
A scene at an AIF canteen in the Jordan Valley.
Bluey's Chance
Major Percy C H Black
Our bravest fighter, Major Percy Black.
A trench scene at Lone Pine, Gallipoli
The rallying point -An incident at Polygon Wood, 1917.
Members of the Anzac Mounted Division watering horses, January, 1918
Participants in a successful trench raid in France in 1916, were given special leave to visit London. In this party are several Western Australians.
Armistice
Dust, dust, dust. A glimpse of the campaign in the Jordan Valley.
Digger slanguage
Snow covered barbed wire entanglements in Noreuil Valley.
Coincidences
A busy beach at Anzac. While the business of war went on, diggers had their dip.
The camel in warfare
A quiet day, Bridges Road, Anzac, in 1915. The landing occurred on the seaward side of Plugge's Plateau.
Private W Simpson, of the 3rd Field Ambulance
The man with the donkey.
Visitors in Camp. A scene near Perth during the South African War. A corner of Blackboy Hill Camp in 1915.
Last days at Weymouth
Rest for the weary. Smoko on a shady boulevarde in Ismailia, Egypt.
Messines Ridge, France, after the capture of Australians in June, 1917.
Robbie
A detachment entering Perth via Beaufort Street. The lighter side of a convalescent camp in England.
Jim's Day
The well in Shrapnel Gully, Anzac, 1915, looking north.
Field Marshal Lord Allenby enters Jerusalem after the Turkish defeat.
Monash Valley, looking north west from Steele's Post, 1915.
The ragtime A M C.
The Last Glimpse
A washing day scene at Anzac
Sister
Troops bound for outpost duty in the Suez Canal zone.
A Gallipoli glimpse
Brigade headquarters, Flers
Australian Light Horse studies in 1915
The horse in the war
A pontoon bridge across the Suez Canal
Lieut-Colonel T J Todd
An inspiring personality
Wounded Australians at Mena, Egypt
Why the cooks won the war
How troops were transported by rail during the concentration for the Somme Offensive in 1916.
Noah at Broome
The mule
The 3rd Light Horse Brigade returning to rest after having been in action at Khurbetha-ibn-Harith, in January, 1918.
Retrospect
Dessie
Troops marching down Hay Streeet, Perth, before leaving for the Front, in 1914.
The biter bit
Blue
A troopship's departure from Fremantle
Battles Over
Diggers waving goodbye as a troopship left Fremantle.
A scene at St Gratien, in Picardy.
Comrades Three. A troopship leaving Fremantle.
Obeying Orders. A sporting interlude on a troopship.
Annihilation's Waste
Chaplain the Rev E M Collick conducting service on a troopship.
The 4th Australian Division Signalling Company camped near the Suez Canal.
Crossing a pontoon bridge at Auja, Palestine
'Whisky' Dawson's casualty station at Aghyl Dere, Gallipoli, on August 8, 1915.