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Eggs-a-Cook! The story of the Forty-Fourth. War - as the Digger Saw It [1921, 44th Battalion Australian Imperial Force]

Uploaded to the Internet Archive with a file from the State Library of Western Australia https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/download/slwa_b1246379_202.pdf Cover title includes War – As the Digger Fought It . There is no Contents page. It is unclear whether this is a missing page, or whether the book never contained this page. The 44th Battalion was formed at Claremont, West Australia, in February, 1916, and was part of the 11th Brigade, 3rd Division The Introduction explains the title. "A few words are needed in explanation of the title "Eggs-a-Cook!" given to this story. That was the name bestowed on the Third Division when it first landed in England in July, 1916, by members of the other four Australian Divisions. The term originated in Egypt, where the natives sold hard-boiled eggs to the troops and shouted their wares as "Eggs-a- Cook!" It was applicable to the Third Division by reason of the fact that their color patches were oval or egg-shaped. It implied that while the Third Division was training in England the "eggs were cooking" with the other four Australian Divisions- at that time engaged in the strenuous battles of the Somme- and that instead of being on Salisbury Plain, its p

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