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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1930

410 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 3 of 21

Explosion of Grenades. Greeks Killed and Wounded. ATHENS.Wednesday

Leader · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 9

A number of workmen [?] [?]were killed w[?] [?]enades dropped whe[?] [?] a lorry at a [?]…

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Murderous Attack Free Laborer Wounded Dying Depositions Taken SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 2

A murderous attack was made on a free laborer at Newcastle late last night. Benjamin Paul and his brother Henry were talking…

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"War Is War" Another Extreme Outlook Australians Libelled London

National Advocate · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 2

"War is War," by ex-Private "X published by Victor Gillanoz is as controversial as most recent war books. Its anonymous author expresses the…

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Missing War Bond Charge Against Clerk Dismissed Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 3

The mysterious wanderings of a war band were explained away to-day at the Central Police Court when Walter Allan Spearing (37) clerk, was…

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Russian Anti-god War. Churches Being Dismantled. MOSCOW

Leader · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 2

The anti-religious war is [?]coming [?]ed. Workmen have voluntarily [?]y dismantled all the church bells at Smolensk…

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Naval Conference New Law of War London

National Advocate · Thursday 6 March 1930 · page 3

In the House of Commons Mr. Ramsay Macdonald said he would consider the question of providing by International laws against the sinking of…

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A Slight Decrease Cost of Living Figures Fixing the Post-war Base

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 7

The results of the investigations, made by the Commonwealth Statistician and Actuary (Mr. C. H. Wickens) as to the price of food and…

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How We Lost Gallipoli Sir Ian Hamilton Tells Press and War Office Blamed London

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 1

"The chief handicap which the English suffer in the race of life is a tendency to crab themselves. This is why we lost Gallipoli," declared Sir Ian…

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Devastation in France 700 Dead in Floods Soldiers Rescue Many Paris

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 1

Flood devastation continues throughout south-western France. It is now estimated that 700 are dead. A family of seven was found dead…

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War Bursary Awarded to All Saints' Student Sydney

National Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 7

John Power, of All Saints' College, Bathurst, has been awarded a War Bursary by the Bursary Endowment Board. The Bursary entities the…

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War Graves Opened Bodies From Ploeg-steert "Utmost Care," Says Officer London

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 10 March 1930 · page 1

Major Chettle, director of the War Graved Commission, assured relatives that the removal of soldiers' bodies from the Ploogsteort cemetery,…

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Soldiers' Social Diggers' Fathers Honored

National Advocate · Monday 10 March 1930 · page 3

With characteristic abandon and conviviality, members of the Bathurst sub-branch of the Relumed Soldiers' League held a re-union at Heath's on…

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Like War Devastation Toulouse

National Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1930 · page 2

M. Tardieu told the press that the sate of [?] in the Good [?] the devastated regions of war time. He emphasised that the…

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War Graves Reply to Complaints by Relatives London

National Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1930 · page 1

Major Chettle, Director of the War Graves Commission, has assured relatives that the removal of bodies from the Ploeg Street cemetery was carried…

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Water Supply Thirty Pounds Granted Anzac Memorial Park

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 18

The Gulgong Council has decided to vote £30 towards a water supply for the Anzac Memorial Park. A[?]d L Tunley said the Memorial…

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Gulgong Diggers Delegates to Governor-general's Dinner. Anzac Concert

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 24

At a meeting of the Gulgong Diggers' and Cobbers' Association, on March 5, with Dr. R. M. Alport presiding, it was decided to hand over the…

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SOLDIERS[?]CLUB. Smoke Social Rennion. Representative Gathering

Leader · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 5

Under the revised system of conducting the business and socials of the Orange sub-branch of the R.S.L[?]…

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Famous War Ace Killed. Crashed in Canada. OTTAWA

Leader · Friday 14 March 1930 · page 6

Co[?] W. G. Barket, ot Canada[?] the famous war ace, who was [?] with bringing down 52 machin[?] during the war, was kiled to-day, when a…

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For Blind Soldiers Leeton Woman's Legacy of £5000 SYDNEY

National Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1930 · page 2

Miss Dorothy Ziele, of Leeton, who died on July 12, 1927, leaving an estate valued at £8,404, bequeathed £5000 to blind and disabled soldiers in New…

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Another War Book Creates a Sensation London

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 1

"John o'London's Weekly," with the book's publishers' tacit consent, says that "Private 18022," the anonymous author of "Her Privates We," which is…

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