Category Archives: leave

Next deployment… whenever it is, it’ll be too soon (2 letters)

Posted on June 5, 1944 by felicityh54

    1st June 44 Dear Youngster Got quite a healthy bunch of letters when we arrived back in camp last night after a three day stunt – four in all.  Yours, dad’s, & one each from Marie & Jack … Continue reading →

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Extended leave about to end… two letters from Melbourne

Posted on April 30, 1944 by felicityh54

                              23rd April 44 Dear Mother & Dad Just a few lines hoping to find you both happy & well as we are here.  Ivy seems … Continue reading →

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Three years since leaving Sydney – seems more like twenty

Posted on May 7, 1943 by felicityh54

                      TX 1004 Sgt Max Hickman 2/33rd Battn AIF 7 May 43 Dear Mother & Dad Your welcome letter of the 2nd arrived this morning – quite good delivery, isn’t … Continue reading →

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Six weeks’ leave: the best break ever

Posted on May 2, 1943 by felicityh54

                                          Using Salvation Army letterhead –  gaps filled in as follows – From no….TX 1004    Name….Hickman ML   Unit…. … Continue reading →

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Separated from the unit…and a glorious end to our stay in Queensland

Posted on September 10, 1942 by felicityh54

5th September 42 Dear Mother & Dad Just a few lines hoping to find you happy & well and enjoying life to the fullest as I am at present.  Our Section has been detached from the unit for a few … Continue reading →

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I’d like a drink myself but won’t be in this queue racket: back in ‘doover’ bivouac, awaiting movement orders

Posted on August 28, 1942 by felicityh54

  SALVATION ARMY paper 28 August 42 Dear Mother & Dad It was pay night last night so tonight nearly all the mob are at the canteen (camp canteen) on the hops and except for the occasional crackle of the … Continue reading →

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The colonel gets a surprise dunking and laughs with the rest

Posted on August 24, 1942 by felicityh54

                            24th Aug 42 Dear Mother & Dad I received your welcome letter of the seventeenth on Friday.  Sorry to hear that dad has the gout again … Continue reading →

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Scarce writeable news – of food, friends and a variety of rackets

Posted on August 16, 1942 by felicityh54

  6th August 42 Dear Mother & Dad I received your welcome letter of the third last Wed, together with one from Ivy and a parcel from Anne – two tins (scallops I think) – there’s no labels on them … Continue reading →

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The leave lottery, missing Rossy’s wedding – and a crazy competition

Posted on July 5, 1942 by felicityh54

                              28th June 42 Dear Mother & Dad I received your welcome letter of the 22nd June last night after we got back from range practice … Continue reading →

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Chaps have to get married to get a spot of leave; stunts on iron rations

Posted on June 22, 1942 by felicityh54

                  Sunday 14 – 6 – 42 Dear Mother & Dad The good run of mail I mentioned in my last letter continues.  This week brought some more old letters – yours … Continue reading →

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