Excerpt from A Handful of Ausseys

In the later chapters I have endeavoured to picture the Aussey as he really is - a lovable, humorous, if somewhat crude product of the great Common wealth, and, although I am a New Zealander and have a tremendous admiration for my own country and everything connected with it, my soldiering days With the Ausseys have endeared them to me beyond expression - they are fighters and men.

In a later volume I hope to deal with various situations an Australian infantryman finds himself in during the year or so following his absorption into the battalion, and will try to picture such characters as Long' 11, Bags, Hungry. Snow, Bushey.

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