Anzac Memorial Appeal
Mr Alf Powell is Treasurer of the Anzac Memorial Appeal which is now proceeding, and is to continue for the balance of the month of August. Mr Powell is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blue Mountains · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1919
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Anzac Asks—It's up to You!
There, high in the air, memorial of my name, Build me a Club, and bid me live to fame. —POPE (revised). The Katoomba Returned Soldiers have started a movement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anzac Memorial Appeal. Fortnight of Fun and Fancy
At the public meeting of citizens held in the Town Hall on Monday night to forward the Anzac Memorial Appeal, it was evident from the start that much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pensions for Soldiers
The President of the B.M. Repatriation Executive (Mr. R. V. Smythe), is in receipt of the Departmental intimation that the new scale of pensions for soldiers who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Anzac Memorial Appeal. Campaign Notes
The campaign for raising funds for the purpose of building a Club House for the returned men of Katoomba is in fall swing, and doing nicely, thank you…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Anzac
Mr and Mrs A. A. Kemp have received word by private cable from Edinburgh, Scotland, that their eldest, son, Alec, is returning by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anzac Mothers Memorial Ribbon
"Echo" hand the melancholy satisfaction of examining one of the Anzac Memorial Ribbons issued by the Commonwealth Ribbons issued by the Commonwealth Defence authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warm Welcome Home. Leura Excels Itself
Leura's citizens never took a back seat during the war, either in the matter of sending their gallant sons to the front, or in assisting every…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Federal Grant for Soldiers
The Federal grant for soldiers seeking employment through the various local authorities was conditioned on the work being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Springwood's Soldier Sons. Enthusiastic Welcome
"To-night it is home, sweet home, and these brave lads who are with us will add "There's no place like home." So said Mr Frank Lovett…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Anzac's Experiences Life on the "Continong."
Amongst those, who, as Sir Ernest Shankelton said at a recruiting meeting held in Martin place, on 20 March, 1917, saw "the duty and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Chiefs Reward
A few days ago it was announced in the House of Commons that the following awards, peerages, and money Brunts had been made to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Visiting Anzac
Dropped into the "Echo" sanctum on Wednesday, in company with Sergt. Jim Watts, his mate in many a stronnous stunt on the Western front…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Welcome Home, Boys" Another Joyous Function
"They'll Forget Their Load of Sorrow Coming Home," was the burden of the Welcome accorded some score of our brave Katoomba boys at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers Mothers and Wives' Assn
The Angel of Peace standing on a globe framed by the grouped flags of the Allies flanked the Gallipoli Memorial Band that played Mr and Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Welcome Home to Soldiers
The R.B.A. Welcomes homes to returning Katoomba soldiers are no popular, that it is only necessary to mention that another one is listed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War or Peace. (Special for "The Echo.")
The war is over—so they say; "Peace" Bonds fly about all day—Then, what is peace? I wish to know, Or is it al an empty show?…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldier in Trouble Haymer in Holts
Ernest Holloway (25), a returned soldier from New Zealand, was charged at the Katoomba Police Court on Thursday morning, before…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldier Boys Home. Another Warm Welcome
"Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home," was the slogan at the top of the handbills announcing another Welcome Home to 22 of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Returned Soldiers' League. Blunt Criticisms
The ordinary meeting of the Katoomba brunch of the R. S. and S. I. L. was hold at the Town Hall on Monday night…
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