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y days a? jeir midst nate He indneea of d always nory. He gain, and inclusion rs to come, meil, who•is people, .eon gat ha. Icea u, hie in thisinziCi («s d) are now Knee, and t G;rmm . A num-previously * that the ooe. They nan*, who knowledge Yet we t* to the r a whole lemy mayow better it the hot I. ia at he Great nd.*a c-jrrea-EapiW X) people the recent anobelai,oll with • ver re lant feats in J It is ie of the historic eck, who ted with His bat—11__—o —News has at last come to haod as to the whereabouts of Gunner J. A. Dyamond, formerly of Toora. Mr. D. L Liddell has received a letter from his brother, Constable Dyamond, of Kichmond, io which he says that Jim returned to duty on the 27th December. For a loo* time he, with otherB cf hia battery, were tossid about and practically had no hied address, with the result that ho had only received three letters and two newspaper* in si* months, lie wsb naturally in a very despondent mood at not receiving any news from home, but in a letter dated I4tb March he mentiooed that he had received a budget of 40 letter*, but only up to the end of October last. He had lately met a number of old Toora friends and had spent a happy time with them. Io a letter dated April 4tb, 1916, he-mention* that he wa* in a moat beautiful country (Fraooe) and was io good health. Constable Dyamond baa received a registered packet from a K*ench bookseller with a note iuside as follows:— “ Please accept printed matter in parcel without being opened, so I send you some post cards boagbt by Mr. Jim in my shop. He was gay and in good health coming from Egypt, expecting to stay bore a little while. Cons table Dyamond says that Jim has also forwarded hia diary, oommenciog August 24th, 1914 (the day he enlisted) aod ending March 9th, 1916, containing a daily aooount of his doings. Considering he was five months with the guns at Gallipoli, the diary i* well worth reading, as it oontains some rather startling foots. Gunner Dyamond s address is No. 1377, 93rd Battery, 2nd F.A. Brigade, A.I. P., 1st Australian Division.—0—At a ImUm mulUn k.U Ik.
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Foster South Gippsland Shire Echo
Foster, Victoria, AU
Fri, May 19, 1916
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AU 24 Jun 2023
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