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Category Archives: training
The leave lottery, missing Rossy’s wedding – and a crazy competition
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
Chaps have to get married to get a spot of leave; stunts on iron rations
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
Posted in Carrier platoon, leave, parcels, Queensland, The course of the war, training, Uncategorized
Tagged Ken Jenkins, Len Woodlock, Ray Ross, Rex Wedd, Rommel, Tobruk
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Unreliable trains, demanding exercises, latest end-of-war prediction
1st June 1942 Dear Mother & Dad I received your welcome letter of the 26th May today. Sorry to hear the weather hasn’t been treating you … Continue reading
Posted in leave, parcels, Queensland, The course of the war, training
Tagged Brisbane, saluting, trains, uniforms
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A good thing for the war effort, that there’s a Labor government in Canberra.
TX1004 Max Hickman 2/33rd Battalion AIF Abroad 17th Jan 1942 Dear Mother & Dad In spite of the Japs and everything else the postal authorities continue to do a hell of … Continue reading
Posted in Australian, Tasmanian, training, world
Tagged inflation, Menzie family, sandstorm, transfer applicaton, working conditions
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A camel caravan in the snow
TX1004 Max Hickman 2/33rd Battalion AIF Abroad 5th January 1942 Dear Mother & Dad We’re into another year. I wonder what it holds. The passing of the old and the beginning of the … Continue reading
Posted in Food and Drink, Middle East, The course of the war, training, Uncategorized
Tagged Billie Laird, Jimmy Benbow, Shirley Balfour
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The comfort of a Chev sedan on race day in Beirut
TX 1004 Max Hickman 2/33rd Battalion AIF Abroad 27th August 1941 Dear Mother & Dad I received your very welcome letter today – a day earlier than the usual delivery & you certainly tricked me with the handwriting … Continue reading
Every day we read the Germans are using their last reserves
TX 1004 Max Hickman 2/33rd Battalion AIF Abroad 21st August 1941 Dear Mother & dad I was very pleased to get your letter yesterday along with Youngster’s and one from Jack. Yours and Youngster’s are as regular as clockwork – … Continue reading
Wags and wits and desert manoeuvres
TX 1004 Pte Max Hickman 2/33rd Battalion AIF Abroad 19th April 1941 Dear Mother I received your very welcome letter of the 31st March yesterday. I’m glad my Palestine letters are getting home but … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, parcels, Posts and telegraph, training, Uncategorized
Tagged desert manoeuvres, field hospital, sandstorms, wags and wits
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