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Blue Mountains · The wars & local soldiers
20 stories in Blue Mountains's papers
"IT gives me great pleasure," stated the Mayor (Ald. W. Freelander) in presenting as Chairman the sixth and final annual report of the Comforts Fund, "to express my intense appreciation of the splendid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday week, January 20th, about 25 soldiers who have lost one or more limbs, will visit Blackheath to participate in a bowls competition…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"I have pleasure in presenting a brief resume of our work during the war years, starting in March, 1940, under the very capable secretaryship…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Advice has been received that twenty cars will be used to transport the limbless soldiers and their families to Blackheath on Sunday for the gala day being arranged by the Municipal Council, Bowling Club, Swimming…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Thursday, the 24th January, a public meeting will be held in the Town Hall, Katoomba. It is expected that this will be the largest public…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Following several showers early on Sunday morning. Old Sol shone brightly to welcome a party of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The attractive mountain residence, known as "The Daffodils," Victory Lane, Leura, has been given to the orphans of soldiers and sailors by its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although St. Aidan's Hall was comfortably filled by the public last Thursday night for the public meeting called by the R.S.S. & A.I.L.A.. and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A welcome home committee, together with the R.S.L has arranged a welcome home to ex-servicemen and women to be held at the School of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Arrangements at Katoomba under the auspices of the Katoomba Sub-Branch of the Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A carnival, spread over three days, called "Back to Springwood," will be held at Springwood on June 15, 16, and 17. Some of the "highlights" of the week-end will be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Hazelbrook-Woodford Services Club is holding a Gymkhana at Gloria Park, Hazelbrook, on Saturday, May 11th, commencing at 10 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"On this Anzac Day," said Mr. Ferns, "the first since the conclusion of the most terrible war of all time, we stand, as it were at the gate of the years. We look back to the gate of 25th April, 1915, and see the serried ranks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, At the going down of the sun and in the morning— WE WILL REMEMBER THEM."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Katoomba was indeed fortunate over last weekend, when over three hundred delegates from thirty-three Rotary Clubs throughout New South Wales attended the first Rotary Conference to be held since the war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A meeting of the Springwood War Memorial Community Centre Committee was held at the School of Arts on 23rd inst. and further progress was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The suggestion made by the War Memorial Hall Committee that the proposed extensions at the Memorial Park Kiosk be adopted as Blackheath's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Donations not previously acknowledged to the new Soldiers' Memorial Building Fund are: Mr. A. Ginsberg.........£10…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Commonwealth Government recently approved a scheme widening the scope of the rehabilitation and re-establishment programme for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →From Rabaul comes a request from a soldier for pen friends from this district. "I am still serving overseas with the A.I.P., and as I haven't any…
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