Wentworth Falls Honour Roll. Unveiling Ceremony
The concert hall of the local Literary Institute was comfortably filled on Wednesday evening, on the occasion of the grand concert attending the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1916
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Commonwealth War Loan. Terms of Subscription
As a number of inquiries have been received regarding the exact terms on which subscriptions may be made to the present issue of the Commonwealth War Loan, the following…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Socks for the Soldiers
Sergt. J.W. Collins, one time of the Mountain motor world, now fighting is France, sends the following useful hints regarding the late of some of the socks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General. Books for the War Chest
During the week, the Katoomba Boys' Association sent away a big consignment of books to the War Chest headquarters, to be sent on for the boys in the various…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Welcome Home to Pte. Pickering
The main portion of the Leura Literary Institute was crowded on Friday night, on the occassion of the official welcome home to Pte. Pickering who had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Australian Soldier
The skies that arched his land were blue, The bush-born winds were warm and sweet, And yet form carliest hours he knew The tides of victory and defeat;…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Welcome Home to Sergt. Robb. Medlow Bath En Fete. S'african-anzac Honoured
Medlow Bath turned out, man, woman and child, last Friday afternoon to welcome Sergt. Robb home, after an absence of nearly two years. The railway…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Women's Corner. a Soldier's Return
Breathes there a woman who does not feel, from the depths of her soul, a motherly affection and pride when she is face to face with one of our youthful…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australia and the War
The Great Tragedy is gradually passing its bloody way into the third stage, and, although the signs are at last pointing to a victorious conclusion for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Soldier's Birthday
A very pleasant social function took [?]ace in St. Hilda's hall on Thursday last., when Mrs. D. J. Brown, of "Airlic Mount," invited the members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gas and Other Things. Horrors of the War
Will Clark, brother of our Harold, writes:—"Many of our boys are wounded, but not seriously. A batch of Tommies were carried past our trenches last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Brave Boy Killed in Action. Maurice Challis Redwood
"It's no use, mother; I'm big and strong, and by the time I'm at the Front I'll just be right for fighting." But, my boy, you are only a child…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Interview with Wounded German
I have seen and [?]alled with Der Kaiser. I found him clad in blue pyjamas and sauntering through the ward of a military hospital in a Lancashire city…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mountain Man in Germany. Eric Bell a Prisoner of War
No more popular Mountaineer has donned Khaki than Eric Bell, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Bell, worthy townspeople, whose giant and generous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Soldiers' Mail-bag. Doings at Durban
Leslie Best, late of "Echo" staff, reports a very decent passage home, calling a perth, Durban, and Capetown on route. At Durban, two deaths occurred from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Soldier's Thanks
Mr. R. N. Reid, late Secretary of the local Labour League, and now Pte. Reid, on route to the Front, writes as follows from Liverpool Camp:â"Dear…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Men of Anzac. An English Estimate of Them. a Race of Heroes
Long in the arm, Loag in the leg, Strong in the back, And quick in the head…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mountain Soldier Honored. "Bon" Craig a Hero
SPECIAL CONGRATULATIONS TO No. 508, Corporal ERIC STEWART CRAIG, 13th Battalion, 4th Australian Infantry Brigade, on his GALLANT CONDUCT…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another War Prophecy
A remarkable war prophecy which seems to have been overlooked occurs in the Apocrypha, in the second book of Esdras:—"Then I sawn dream, and, behold, there came up from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Austral Soldier's Appeal
As a returned soldier, I crave a small grace in your valuable paper to contradict a statement which has been circulated by a section of frozen-footed…
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