Media: BOOK - paperback, 164 pages
Author: RSL WA Branch
Year: (1929) 2015
ISBN: 9780859055956
Other: b&w photos, sketches
Publisher: Hesperian Press

The W.A. Digger Book was published by the West Australian branch of the RSL in 1929, and expresses with pictures and words the thoughts and experiences of the A.I.F.

Over 160 A4 pages of reminiscence, story, verse, drawings and photographs, with a few contemporary supporting adverts from leading companies, make this a very interesting book. It contains forewords and articles by Monash, Chauvel, Hobbs, and Collett with contributions by Dryblower Murphy, Cyril Longmore, James Pollard, ‘Jean Dell’, and others writing under pen names familiar to readers of the Diggers Diary of the old Western Mail, which are a delight to read.

Contents:
Message from Sir John Monash
Message from Sir Harry Chauvel
Message from Sir Talbot Hobbs
The R.S.S.I.L.A. in Western Australia
West Australian V.C. Winners
My Son
Our Park of Memories
At Moments Like This
The Insurgence of WIndy Weston
She's a Wonder
Let ach Man Answer
Essay on Two-Up
A Case of Nerves
Retribution
All That Glitters
Songs of the Great War
Bluey's Chance
Our Bravest Fighter
The Rallying Point
Requiescat
Armistice
Digger Slanguage
Coincidences
The Camel in Warfare
The Man With the Donkey
Last Days at Weymouth
Latent Humour
We Shall Remember and Repay
Robbie
Jim's Day
The Rag-Tag Time A.M.C.
The Last Glimpse
Sister
The Double Issue
The Horse in the War
Getting a Move On
An Inspiring Personality
Why the Cooks Won the War
The Lost Opportunity
From a Dugout Door
Noah at Broome
The Mule
Retrospect
Dessie
The Biter Bit
Blue
Battles Over
Comrades Three
Fritz
Casual Guard
Obeying Orders
Annihilation's Waste
The Heart of Ma'm'selle
"Pick Up Yer Step!"
That Day in April
The DIgger as Others Saw Him