Vonda Stanley's collection of early Australian bush poems
WW2 Diggers Poems
From the George Bateman Collection, compiled by Howard Rose.
About these poems from WW 2 (Howard Rose) howierose@bigpond.com
The Benghazi Handicap by Sgt. E Gilbert & N Lansberg 2/1st Pioneers
Faded Suits of Green By Rebecca Morton.
Our Record Contributed by Beth Stranger, 1946
The Epitaph By Sgt Ian Healy
Boys of the Second First By J Perry, for the 2/1st Pioneers. 7th Platoon. A Company. (The fighting 7th)
The Unsung Heroes of the A.I.F.
This is Palestine By E.R. Saunders. 2/1st Pioneers 6th Division A.I.F. July 1941
The Sunburnt Bloke By Christopher Jones, Sydney.
The Singing Diggers By Sapper L. Porter.
The Diggers Home By Cpl. K. Stewart. 2/1st Pioneer Battalion
Lord "Haw Haw" By Cpl K Stewart
We Can Depend on You Contributed by an English Soldier.
The Raw Recruit By "Snowy" R Jardine