-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Archives
- November 1944
- October 1944
- September 1944
- August 1944
- July 1944
- June 1944
- May 1944
- April 1944
- January 1944
- December 1943
- November 1943
- October 1943
- September 1943
- August 1943
- July 1943
- June 1943
- May 1943
- March 1943
- February 1943
- January 1943
- December 1942
- November 1942
- October 1942
- September 1942
- August 1942
- July 1942
- June 1942
- May 1942
- April 1942
- March 1942
- February 1942
- January 1942
- December 1941
- November 1941
- October 1941
- September 1941
- August 1941
- July 1941
- June 1941
- May 1941
- April 1941
- March 1941
- February 1941
- January 1941
- December 1940
- November 1940
- October 1940
- September 1940
- August 1940
- July 1940
- June 1940
- May 1940
Meta
Tags
- Ac Hallam
- Ack Hallam
- airmail
- Anne Fisher
- apartheid
- army pay
- AWL
- baldness
- Banias
- Billie Laird
- Brian Phillips
- censors
- censorship
- Charlie Mene
- Christmas
- Claude Hill
- Col Corby
- concert party
- concerts
- convoy
- crib
- Curtin
- diary
- DIck Schultz
- diplomacy
- Durban
- field hospital
- General Blamey
- Glasgow
- Graham Watts
- guard duty
- Ibeles Saki
- Ivy Drysdale
- Jack Chandler
- Jim McDonnell
- Ken Jenkins
- Kilo 89
- Laurie Fisher
- leave
- log cabin
- Mae Menzie
- malaria
- manpower
- Melbourne Cup
- Mersa Matruh
- Mick Mason
- militia
- Mrs Laird
- Palestine
- Pete McCowan
- petrol rationing
- picket duty
- presents
- punishment
- rationing
- Ray Ross
- Reg Hickman
- Rex Wedd
- rumours
- sandstorm
- scrounging
- shipboard life
- Shirley Balfour
- Snow Lewis
- Suez
- swimming
- Ted Fleming
- Tel Aviv
- Tiny Schultz
- tobacco
- training
- two up
- vegetables
- Zinc works
Tag Archives: trains
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
Leave a comment
The Blog that might have been - 70 years on 