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Edward P F Lynch - Somme Mud


paulowen

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Hi all,

I've just finished reading EPF Lynch's 'Somme Mud'. Recommended by the way.

I thought I'd have a look at his Australian service records, which unlike British records are properly scanned, freely available and not half burnt, but can't find them. I know from Amazon reviews that other people have found them but I can't seem to track the man down!

Has anyone here got a link to them? The search engine only lets me search on surnames but as there're only 400 or so Lynchs I thought I'd be able to narrow it down.

Grateful for any help.

Cheers

Paul

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Paul,

at the moment the Aust National Archives site is not responding to my requests but if you search for E F Lynch you may have better luck. He was a member of the 45th battalion and his service

number 2207. Agree about the book, the follow up In the footsteps of Private Lynch is also a very good read.

Hope this helps

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Got it now; looks like I was led astray by the P in the title!

Thanks for all the replies.

: http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au is a new one on me, which I'll be investigating as I've recently been told about one, or possibly two great uncles, who emigrated and joined up. A bit more work required yet though viz a viz full names, ages etc

Thanks again

Paul

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We used to have a thread going called Who Has It Now, started by our great pal Kevin O'Neil in which this book was passed from pal to pal on the GWF. I was lucky enough to receive the book and read it, passing it on to the next recipient when I'd finished. It was a really good book and I throughly enjoyed reaing it. I believe there's also a follow up book, but I can't for the life of me remember the title of it.

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Kim

It is mentioned above!

regards

Robert

PS The original book is a great read, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Yet to read the follow up one.

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It did seem a bit fictionalised; I wasn't going to say anything because it's still a good read.

To be fair, he did give the protagonist a pseudonym so perhaps he was trying to be honest. All the same, I think that any good anecdote that he heard was considered too good to waste and it all went into the book.

Not complaining mind!

Paul

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