>Uncle No.2 was a journalist for the Melbourne ARGUS Newspaper & I well >remember him wearing officer style army uniform. Would anyone know if >war >correspondents actually enlisted & were subject to military law, >or >perhaps was it more like a representative role & the uniform was >more or >less worn as a symbol? I did a little test case, and looked at the WWII Nominal Roll for the well-known Australian War Correspondent, George Johnston (I think he may also have worked for the Argus) and he's not on the Nominal Roll either, so my guess is that they were not enlisted members of the 2nd AIF. The uniform was probably more likely to have been protection against being shot as a spy if they fell into the wrong hands. Lenore Frost Essendon, Vic http://www.members.optushome.com.au/lenorefrost/ See details of my new book: "Essendon and the Boer War, with letters from the veldt, 1899-1902" http://www.members.optushome.com.au/lenorefrost/bookshop.html _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus