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Western Mail, Thursday, 12 December 1929, p. 2.
Joe Lynch, a blinded digger who recently passed through Perth, was a reinforcement to one of the early New South Wales battalions, and finished his service with the 54th. Mr. Lynch is an engaging personality and chats merrily about his recent experiences abroad. Diggers who enjoyed Paris, leave will be interested to know that instead of the war-time 28 francs for a "John Bradbury" the Parisian moneychanger now hands out 124 francs to the pound sterling. The "Grande Pots" of Bock Beer are obtainable for one franc, really twopence, and Mr. and Mrs. Lynch enjoyed a seven-course dinner which, in English money, cost them 2/3 each. Champagne, similar to the digger's, purchase of six or eight francs is now obtainable for sevenpence. Speaking of St. Dunstan's Hospital, Mr. Lynch said that for the ex-soldier it is still a "home-from-home," and St. Dunstan's even pays a pension for widows and children of a blinded soldier not in receipt of a pension from the Imperial authorities.