Love Letters of an ANZAC 2nd Ed March 1916 (1st Ed was Feb 1916) I never knew this one existed by Hogue until I saw one on fleabay at an astronomical price and quite shabby cond.
I already had Trooper Bluegum at the Dardanelles so this completed the pair. Have read a few pages and what an age of innocence before they went away in his letter to his Jean a pure heart and youthful outlook on life. I am happy this is home now I got it from the USA saving about $150/AU on the fleabay one and my edition is streets ahead of that one. Both are scarce titles and a tad dear in 1st ed's
The second is by Stoker Straws In The Wind 2nd Ed (also wrote Service Most Silent) pretty happy with this is an interesting read from what I have gathered. Another scarce title.
Correct Mike 1919 in England guess he never got to marry the girl of his dreams how sad it is to survive all that chaos of blood, mud & death to be killed by influenza.......................
In Hogues second book I have he writes from Gallipoli to Jean "Australia wont forget the troops that are buried here" some of his descriptions of the battles are in the first person and portray an absolute rabbit existence not only do you have to move fast in daylight but dig deep, how the stuff got past the censors is unknown as it is written before the papers got the info. Whether the snail mail beat the papers info is unknown but he warns her not to worry about him but then goes on to describe people she met in Australia with him are either dead or badly wounded thats got to be good for her well being!
With regards to the outbreak of the influenza F10 - It infected 500 million people across the world including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million.
Where as WWI claimed approximately 50 million souls.
There are some conspiracy theories on that. Bill O'Reilly wrote a book called Killing Patton. Been a while since I read it but he indicated the Russians might have been behind it.
In the First World War as Captain of the Australian Submarine AE2, which in 1915 was the first submarine to penetrate the mined narrows of the Dardanelles and thus to enter the Sea of Marmara which was subsequently sunk and crew captured he left the navy after the war to resume acting recalled in WWII where at the end he left to continue acting think he passed away in 1966.
The Boatswain (Bo'sun)on the AE2 was a bloke by the name of Henry James Elly Kinder, rank SPO, Service number 7244, "other" number; ANF 1334.
HIS son, Ross, enlisted in the 2/26Bn for WW2; Service Number; QX14677. My maternal grandfather had been a member of the "first" 26Bn, raised in Brisbane for WW1, and "famous" for dragging the broken-down and damaged German A7V tank "Mephisto", from the battlefield and making sure it got back to Brisbane..
Unfortunately for young Ross Kinder, the 2/26 was sent to Malaya to confront the Japanese. This did not end well, and he and his steadily dwindling group of comrades became "involuntary navvies", building a railway to Burma.
He survived all of that, and passed away just a couple of years ago. His grandson is now a teenager living here in Brisbane.
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saving about $150/AU on the fleabay one and my edition is streets ahead of that one. Both are scarce titles and a tad dear in 1st ed's
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