• This section allows you to Search This Site

• By default the search engine tries to locate pages which have exact matches for all of the words entered in your search query. 

• If that fails, it then tries to locate pages which contain any of the words in your search query. If that happens a short message is displayed at the top of the search results indicating this has been done.

• In addition, there are several ways to modify the default search behaviour.

• + and - qualifiers
  If you place a + in front of a word that word is required to be on the page.
  If you place a - in front of a word that word is required to not be on the page.

• * wildcard
  If you end a query word  with a * all words on a page which start the same way as that query word will match.
  Example: smoke* will return smoke, smokestack, smokescreen, smokers etc

• ? wildcard
  If a query word contains a ? any character will match that position.
  Example: b?g will return big, bug, bag etc

All of these techniques can be combined, if necessary.

Digger History:  an unofficial history of the Australian & New Zealand Armed Forces