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Category Archives: parcels
Joining a rifle company engaged in road building
TX 1004 max Hickman 2/33rd Battalion AIF Abroad 1st Nov 1941 Dear Mother & dad I’m a day ahead of schedule with my letter this week – with the dawn this morning … Continue reading
Posted in Australian, Carrier platoon, Food and Drink, Middle East, organisation, parcels
Tagged bully beef, Jim McDonnell, John Curtin, Ken Jenkins, road building
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Esprit de corps strained: the new CO has a hell of a job
TX 1004 Max Hickman 2/33rd Battalion AIF Abroad 27th Oct 1941 Dear Mother & Dad Sorry that confounded broadcast caused so much bother. I might have known it would. It would have been … Continue reading
Better tucker, Aussie beer and tinned Tassie apples
TX1004 Max Hickman 2/33rd Battalion AIF Abroad 18 Oct 1941 Dear Mother & Dad I’m certainly on the crest of a wave with mail – letters, parcels and papers. Eight Aussie letters and … Continue reading
A parcel with scallops – hoping they’ll go the rounds
TX 1004 Max Hickman 2/33rd Battalion AIF Abroad 2nd Sept 1941 Dear Mother & Dad Once again I write hoping to find you happy and well as I am at present. I am writing a little earlier than … Continue reading
Durban… Shrapnel Valley…. Beirut
TX1004 Max Hickman 2/33rd Battalion AIF Abroad 31st July 1941 Dear Mother & Dad I received your very pleasant letter of the 14th yesterday and am glad to know you are both well again. the matrimonial business is certainly … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, gambling and drinking, leave, Middle East, parcels, The course of the war
Tagged Anne Fisher, Beirut, Charlie Mene, Durban, presents
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Peaceful prelude to dramatic evacuation
TX 1004 Pte M L Hickman 2/33 Battn AIF Sunday 15th June 41 Dear Mother Just a few lines from the shade of a fig tree hoping to find you, dad and the boys as happy and well as … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East, parcels, The course of the war, Uncategorized
Tagged casualties, convoy, DIck Schultz, Ibeles Saki, Jack Chandler, olive groves, Rex Wedd, roads
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Parcels arriving : there must be a move on
TX 1004 Pte Max Hickman 2/33rd Battalion AIF Abroad 22nd May 1941 Dear Mother The last two days the … Continue reading
Cakes, chocolates and other delicacies…with disastrous after effects
TX 1004 Pte Max Hickman 2/33rd Battalion AIF 26th April 1941 Dear Mother Since I wrote you last Sunday many amazing things have happened, not least of which has been the delivery of multitudes of parcels. Late on Sunday … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, gambling and drinking, organisation, parcels, Posts and telegraph, Uncategorized
Tagged Australian beer, cake, chocolate, Craven A, Leith Hospital, PK, Reg Hickman, socks, tobacco
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