Summary
Press notice issued to the 24th Battalion AIF regarding the new Regimental Field Press and intention to issue a battalion publication. Names for the publication are invited.
Eight issues plus a 'preliminary publication' of the Red and White Diamond, a journal of the 24th Battalion, were published. 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)
Physical Description
Single sheet of paper, printed.
More Information
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Collection Names
Military Memorabilia Collection, Returned and Services League (RSL) Collection
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Victorian Branch, Returned & Services League of Australia Limited (RSL), 24 Feb 1986
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Issued By
24th Battalion, AIF, 22 Aug 1918
Part of records from the 24th Battalion Association, which became defunct on 23 Apr 1982. -
Format
Journal
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Inscriptions
24th BATTALION A.I.F./ PRESS NOTICE./ TO ALL RANKS OF THE UNIT./ This Sheet is the first production of your/ Regimental Field Press. A plant has been/ purchased from your regimental funds, and is/ now incation. It is intended to publish/ regularly - or as regularly as circumstances/ permit - a Battalion Journal for the edifica-/tion, amusement and convenience of our/ troops. [Newsletter continues at length]
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Overall Dimensions
166 mm (Length), 211 mm (Width)
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Keywords
Militaria: Australian, Military Memorabilia, World War I, 1914-1918, Humour
