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Issue Details: First known date: 1918... 1918 Untitled
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Notes

  • This four line poem appeared in Smith's Weekly in May 1937 in an item titled 'Digger Poets'. It was evidently written on a pylon on a wharf at Le Havre at the end of World War I and was intended as a Digger's farewell to France:

    'Land of chats [fleas] and diarrhoea, Muddy streets and watery beer, The Froggies' heaven, the Diggers' hell, B- country, fare thee well!'

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First known date: ca. 1918
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    y separately published work icon Smith's Weekly 1 May 1937 Z1892639 1937 newspaper issue 1937 pg. 18
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    France,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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