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

The wars & local soldiers, 1936

618 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 14 of 31

Anzac Dinner

Leader · Wednesday 13 May 1936 · page 2

At meeting last Friday of ladies associated with the [?]gens’ dinner to the returned soldiers on Anzac Day Mr Mcne[?]y presided, and voice…

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Wounded Constable Exemplary Sentences At Sessions SYDNEY, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 13 May 1936 · page 1

At. the Quarter Sessions to-day Frederick Thomas Smith (24), was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for having maliciously wounded…

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Battlefields and War Memorial Coronation Tear Tour

National Advocate · Wednesday 13 May 1936 · page 4

A battlefields and war memorials pilgrimage has been organised by the Melbourne sub branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers League to tour…

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Cement War Restoration Of "Free Entry" For Britain Is Recommended by Senate Canberra

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 14 May 1936 · page 3

By 19 votes to 10 the Government has won the second-last round of the cement tariff fight. The Senate agreed by that margin to-night to…

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War Service Homes Commissioner. Canberra

National Advocate · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 4

Mr. H. H. Richardson, of Sydney has been appointed Commissioner of War Service Homes at a salary of £1,000 a year…

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Ethiopia, Nertz ! We Have our Own War. About That Profit !

Leader · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 4

Don’t talk in Orange about H[?]e Se[?]e, Austria, Mussolini, Ethiopia, Hitler, the Yellow Peril or the Black…

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Lord Allenby Death of War Leader Brilliant Palestine Campaign Recalled London

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 1

Field-Marshal Lord Allenby, Commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Force which met with a brilliant success in the Palestine campaign, and…

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Coronation Year Tour Battlefields & War Memorials Pilgrimage

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1936 · page 5

A battlefields and war memorials pilgrimage has been organised by the Melbourne sub-branch of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' League, to tour…

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Returned Soldiers' Ladies' Auxiliary

Leader · Wednesday 20 May 1936 · page 2

The usual monthly meeting of the above will be held in the Memorial Hall. at 3 o'clock this (Wednesday) afternoon. All are requested to be…

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Fear of War Sydney

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 21 May 1936 · page 1

DR. Luker. of Roseville, who returned from a trip to China and Japan, stated that everywhere he saw preparations for war…

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State of Fear Feverish Eastern War Preparations SYDNEY, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 21 May 1936 · page 1

Dr. Donald Luker, of Ros'eyille, who returned to-day from China and Japan, said everywhere he went in the East he saw preparations for war…

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Soldiers' Preference Further Denials SYDNEY

National Advocate · Thursday 21 May 1936 · page 2

The report of the Returned Soldiers' Pr[?]ferenve Board released by the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr Dunningham) to-day, denies that…

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Resigned to War. Feeling in France

Leader · Friday 22 May 1936 · page 2

Impressions of a resigned feeling in france thet [?] Eur[?]an war was in[?]visible before long. and of a [?] to England that war could be…

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The Earl and War Extensie Preparations SYDNEY

National Advocate · Friday 22 May 1936 · page 6

"Everywere I went in the East I saw preparations for war," said Dr. Donald Luker, of Roseville on his arrival today by the Nellore…

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C.I.B. Chief Shot. Wounded in Face and Arm. Four Bullets Fired ? MELBOURNE

Leader · Monday 25 May 1936 · page 2

Mystery surrounds the wounding of Superintendent John O'Connell Brophy, who took up duty as chief of the…

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Reads Like War But Is Only Football Dumping 'Em Hard

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 25 May 1936 · page 1

IN America they kill 'em off by the scare at football, and players wear armor like the gladiators of old. It looks…

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Soldiers Rule, Palestine Unrest. Trains and Cars Checked. JERUSALEM

Leader · Monday 25 May 1936 · page 2

The authorities have taken fr[?] measures for dealing with the Arab-Jewish friction and have prohibited the Arab strike leaders…

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Great War Leader Dies

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 May 1936 · page 13

Field-Marshal Lord Allenby, who died recently, aged 75. General Sir Harry Chauvel said that "Lord Allenby shared with Lord…

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