Summary
24th Battalion Journal, No. 1, 16 September 1918.
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
Paper-bound journal, bound with paper tape.
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, Australia, 16 Sep 1918
Part of records from the 24th Battalion Association, which became defunct on 23 Apr 1982. -
Format
Journal
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Inscriptions
On front page: -24th BATTALION/ JOURNAL/ No. 1/ September 16, 1918./ PRICE, 25 centimes./ Technical Education and Invention/ HE SOLDIER'S POSITION./ (Contributed). The proposed system of technical education/ for soldiers is a sound one. But are we going/ to stop there? Men from all parts of the world/ have met in France and discussed various/ ideas by which they have been impressed, and / after the war new ideas will develop in the/ minds of these men. If the country has no/ means of developing these ideas, they will be/ lost. [newsletter continues at length.]
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Overall Dimensions
168 mm (Length), 211 mm (Width)
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Keywords
Militaria: Australian, Military Memorabilia, World War I, 1914-1918, Humour
