A good read and no doubt why the Garrison's Australian Commander, General Leslie Morshead was known by his men as "Ming the Merciless". https://www.awm.gov.au/sites/default/files/ssvs-riches-2012-tobruk.pdf
very interesting Spidge also never heard the use of the word " larrikinism" before Larrikin is an Australian English term meaning "a mischievous young person, an uncultivated, rowdy but good hearted person", or "a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political conventions". regards Clive
The Australian Poet Henry Lawson wrote in Shearers: They tramp in mateship side by side - The Protestant and Roman They call no biped lord or sir And touch their hat to no man! These are the Larrikin types: Paul Hogan in Anzacs And Graham Kennedy in "The Odd Angry Shot" (Warning: Very Crude Language)
