The Archive · 1940

Continuous Fighting

The long. wasting bogged-hell of the Passchendaele fighting in 1917; so on to the 1918 Battle of Amiens, when, from the first break-through on August 8 until October 6, the Australian Corps was engaged in almost continuous fighting.

Significant for this present time that efter all that the Diggers, as far as depleted ranks allowed, were fighting as splendidly as they had ever fought. Many of them had by then become embittered with war and the long, well-nigh Indescribable strain to which their powers of endurance had been subjected. Yet they went into it over and over, with that sticking characteristic of the British breed which, given the chance, will win now in the long run. Many of them as the famous "475" that shaves sloan comfort yet trim and compact for easy, conyesient handling. If you wish to use your shaver on AE current only, Nationally recognized as "tops" in quick, close, comfort-shayes. Has the powerful series-wound, brush-type, Universal motor that operates on either AE or DE current. If you have occasion to use your Shayetravel widely and get into DE areas) the AE-DE

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