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42nd Battalion Australian Imperial Force (AIF) 1916/19

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• Legal Matters inc privacy, copyright, suitability etc
• Site search & Table of Contents for 42nd Bn AIF History
• Routine Orders . . . or helpful hints on using the site.
• Nominal Roll of the 42nd Bn AIF in WW1
  • A B C D E on the nominal roll
  • F G H I J on the nominal roll
  • K L M N O on the nominal roll
  • P Q R S T on the nominal roll
  • U V W X Y Z on the nominal roll
  • Supplementary; additions to the nominal roll
• Fast Facts; a selection of interesting tit-bits of information
  • Regt Nos; Standards; Wound stripes; Battalion make-up
  • Dead Man's Penny; Rosemary; 2 Hats; Deep thinkers
  • Field Ambulance and other medical matters
  • Harefield Park Hospital
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  • Tyne Cot Cemetery; Sacred parade ground; Transport ships
  • Phonetic alphabet; Trench slang.
  • The Returned & Services League (RSL)
  • Trench system, how it worked. AN&MEF:
• Battalion History; Introduction to "Spirit of the 42nd"
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  • Index to Chapters of "Spirit of the Forty-Second"
  • Preface to "Spirit of the Forty-Second"
  • Honours awarded the 42nd. & list of Admin Officers
  • Chapter 1; Patriotism & Duty; Birth of the 42nd
  • Chapter 2; Adventure; Arrival in France; Baptism of Fire.
  • Chapter 3; Tenacity; First big battle; Messines; Warneton
  • Chapter 4; Endurance; 3rd Ypres, Passchendaele
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  • Chapter 5; Determination; The Somme; Hamel.
  • Chapter 6; Enterprise; August 8th, Mont St Quentin
  • Chapter 7; Resistance; attempts to extinguish the 42nd
  • Chapter 8; Pride; The Last Battle; The Hindenburg Line.
  • Chapter 9; Comradeship; Return & demobilisation.
• Badges; Rising Sun; Shoulder-patches; Badges of Rank
  • General Service Badge (The Rising Sun); history & photos
  • Badges of Rank (Brigadier and below)
  • Badges and inscriptions used on headstones
  • Shoulder Patches of the 3rd Division AIF
• Memorials; an index to the various memorials.
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  • Menin Gate Memorial; Ypres, Belgium.
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  • Le Hamel; The Australian Corps Memorial Park
  • Sailly Le Sec; the 3rd Division Memorial in France.
  • Canberra; The Australian Army National Memorial
  • Brisbane; the ANZAC Square Memorial.
  • Country Towns Qld; a selection of country town memorials.
  • The Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier
  • Indigenous Diggers Memorial
  • Cemeteries; of France & Flanders (only a few)
  • Mt Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Mt Gravatt Brisbane
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  • Headstones; a selection to show different styles
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• 11th Brigade 3rd Division AIF; Order of Battle
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  • 207th Machine Gun Company (British)
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• Discipline; were the Diggers a rabble?
  • Discipline...Thou Shalt Not Kill...Heroes or Hoodlums?
• The Generals, King George 5 and the Prime Ministers
  • Field Marshal Sir Douglas "Butcher" Haig
  • General Birdwood, later Baron Birdwood of Anzac.
  • General Sir John Monash
  • General Sir John Gellibrand
  • Brigadier General Cannan
  • Australian Prime Ministers Andrew Fisher and Billy Hughes
• The Officers and men of the 42nd.
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  • Pte W A Egan; Pte V G Schwinghammer; Pte A H Tanner
  • Sgt H Greer DCM; Pte RT Morrall; Pte WJ Sutton
  • Group01; A Coy NCO's; HQ staff 1916 &1918;
  • Group 02; some NCO's;
  • 958 Lt Leonard Keysor VC
  • Mates, 1918
  • Sgt J L Mason MM
  • Pte F Palmer; Pte E OWEN;
• Documents of the AIF and the 42nd Bn Association
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• Photographs of the Generals, the men, the conditions
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  • Photographs 2; more photos of the men & conditions
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  • a Private Collection of photos. (Verdi Schwinghammer)
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• Diaries of 42nd Bn men in the trenches, written at the time
  • Hell Babes; A personal account of 1916 & early 1917
  • Verdi Schwinghammer's diary of the first World War
• Our Blokes; uniforms, slouch hat, equipment.
• The Enemy inc The Kaiser (Emperor) of Germany
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• Weapons; clubs, bayonets, rifles, grenades, machine guns.
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  • Heavy machine-guns; mortars; artillery
    • Australian Artillery 1917 & a museum piece 18Pdr
• New Weapons; Machine guns, b/wire, gas, tanks, planes
  • The Tanks; the original 'landships', both sides.
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  • Aircraft; British; RE8; DH5 Scout; Capt Wackett
  • Aircraft; German; Pfalz DIII; Fokker; Gotha.
• Enemy Weapons; clubs, rifles, grenades, machine guns.
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  • German heavy machine-guns; mortars; artillery.
• Medals awarded to members of the 42nd Battalion AIF
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  • British War Medal 1914/18
  • Victory Medal 1914/20
  • Decorations awarded and the Citations.
    • Decorations awarded and the Citations (2)
  • Knighthoods as they applied to AIF Generals.
  • German Medals; Blue Max; Iron Cross, Wound Badge +
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• Bugle Calls inc The Last Post, The Rouse & Reville
  • Last Post (wav file)
  • The Rouse (wav file)
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  • Last Post (quikload version)
  • The Rouse (quikload version)
• The Australian Flag as it was in 1914-1918 and now.
• The Battles of the 42nd Battalion AIF
  • The Battle of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele)
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  • Battle of Broodseinde; 3rd Ypres
  • The Somme; A Soldiers Experience; V G Schwinghammer
  • Battle of Hamel; Monash's Best Show.
  • Peaceful Penetration; a new kind of warfare.
• Maps of the battlefields of France & Flanders (Belgium)
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  • Map 1914-18 Western Front
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• War Graves of the 42nd Battalion AIF
• Poets Corner; a selection of verse and song.
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  • The Band played Waltzin' Matilda
    • And the band played Waltzin' Matilda (midi version)
  • The Bagman's Dream
  • Memories, 20 years after.
  • All the Bloomin Way (aka Anzac Day)
  • What Are You Guarding?
  • The Rose of No Man's Land
  • Why
  • Bless 'Em All
  • Mademoiselle From Armentieres
  • Carrying the Curse
  • Unemployed
  • We're all Australians now
  • The men who made The Stew
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  • The Ode and other tributes.
  • Willie McBride and Willie McBride's Answer
    • Willie McBride, 2 verses and a chorus; MP3
  • Sir.
  • Just a brown slouch hat.
• Digger Yarns; tall tales and true?
• Scrapbook of odds and ends in no particular order.
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  • Legacy; a fine and unique Australian service organisation.
    • Gellibrand, General Sir John (in regard to Legacy)
• Old Diggers; what happened to those who returned?
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  • Battalion News; No 24; Dec 1952; 33rd Reunion
  • Battalion News; No 37; June 1960; 41st Reunion.
  • Battalion News; No 59; June 1970; 51st Reunion
• World War II and the 42nd Australian Infantry Battalion.
• 42nd Battalion The Royal Queensland Regiment (42 RQR)
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  • Battalion Badge 42 RQR
  • Royal Queensland Regiment (RQR) Badge (b&w)
  • Royal Queensland Regiment (RQR) Badge in colour.
• Museum, Central Queensland, Military and artefacts.
• Links to other helpful sites

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The History of the 42nd Australian Infantry Battalion in WW1