Summary

Alternative Name(s): Newspaper, Field Newspaper

Eight issues plus press notice and preliminary publication of the Red and White Diamond, a journal of the 24th Battalion, AIF. It was printed during and shortly after World War I on a 'regimental field press', and was intended to 'be a newspaper with a humerous element decidedly prominent', and 'not to be any form of an official war budget... We would rather make you laugh than drive you to hard thinking, though we may get serious at times. It is not to be a political organ, or a church paper, but we will find room for all normal tastes and sentiments.' (ST 036423.2)

Its 'preliminary publication' was dated 1 September 1918; its first issue was dated 16 September 1918. It was published until March 1919. In April 1948 a journal of the same name, issued by the 24th Battalion Association, was published as vol. 1, no.1.

The 24th Battalion Association was discontinued in 1982.

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