IMPORTANT: Please read these notes explaining unusual features of this Index:
INDEX TO `THE WHISPERING BOOMERANG`
(News Bulletin of the 31st Infantry Battalion Association)
Period covered: Initial issue of November 1976 to issue of June 2002.
Columns show (in order): Surname/Given Names/Volume No/Issue No/Page No
1. `The Whispering Boomerang` is now published twice a year; the first issue was published by the late Mr. Robert (Bob) Burla. The News Bulletin covers the activities, past and present, of men and women (and at times wives/partners) who serve/d in Units sharing the designation "31st” (and including attached units), during World Wars I and II and post-WWII up to the present day.
2. A file of News Bulletins is in the Kennedy Regiment Library at the Municipal Library, Ingham, North Queensland. Enquiries may attract a small charge.
3. The Index is almost entirely of personal names and is alphabetically arranged by both surname and given name/s. Surnames beginning with either `Mac` or `Mc` are in normal alphabetical order, while those beginning with `O apostrophe` are at the start of the `Os`.
4. While a name may appear several times on the same page of an issue, it will be listed normally only once for that page, even when used in different articles.
5. At times the spelling of a name may differ from the possibly correct spelling; where this occurs, the `incorrect` name is shown in brackets.
6. Titles/ranks are used only when there is no given name or initial.
7. A unique system is used for page numbers which may differ in some copies of a particular issue. See: `How Pages are Numbered in this Index`, which may be briefly summarised using examples of page numbers, as follows:
(i) 00016 The same page numbers appear in all known copies of an issue
(ii) 18015 The name appears on either page 18 or page 15 of that issue
(iii) 17000 The name is on page 17 but only in some copies of an issue
(iv) 99919 The name is on page 19 but only in some copies of an issue
Compiled by Loftus Dun and John Gardner (2001-2002)
HOW PAGES ARE NUMBERED IN THIS INDEX
Some early issues of `The Whispering Boomerang` inexplicably differ slightly in content from others. Hence, names may appear on pages with different numbers, and in addition, stories and names in them may be replaced by entirely different stories/names. To overcome these anomalies, different forms of page numbering have been used for the Index, as follows:
1. Where the page numbers are the same in all (known) copies of an issue, that number is preceded by zeros; e,g, 00016 indicates that the name in the Index is on page 16 in each copy of that issue;
2, Where the page number is not preceded by zeros, then either:
(a) The name is on different pages in some copies of an issue, for example:
18015 indicates that the name is on page 18 in some copies of the issue
but on page 15 in others; or
(b) The name is in some copies of an issue, but not in others, for example:
The page numbers then take either of two forms:
(i) ending with 000, e.g. 17000 - the name is on page 17 but only in
some copies; or,
(ii) beginning with 999, e.g. 99919 - the name is on page 19 in some
copies.
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