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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1923

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152,000 Unidentified War Graves

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 June 1923 · page 3

Speaking in the House of commons, the Under Secretary for war (Lieut. Col. Guinness) stated that the number of identified graves on the various battle…

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Dublin Sensation. Soldiers Arrested for Alleged Robbery. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 June 1923 · page 3

A sensation has been caused in Dublin by the arrest of Free State soldiers and three women in connection with a recent robbery of £1200 from…

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Memorial Hall at Lismore. Soldiers May Withdraw

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 June 1923 · page 2

A deputation from the Returned Soldiers' League will wait on the Municipal Council to-night, in reference to the proposed Memorial Hall, Town Hall and…

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War's Nobility. a Foolish Dream

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 June 1923 · page 1

Mrs. Dale, delegate to the Geneva Conference, speaking at All Saints' Cathedral School Hall, Bathurst, last week, said that, in a world largely controlled by…

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War Service Homes. Better Conditions' Movement. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 June 1923 · page 5

About 100 ex-soldiers held a meeting at Punchbowl yesterday, and was reported that the men's organisation to secure better conditions in regard to…

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Soldiers and Nymboida Work

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 June 1923 · page 4

The secretary of the Grafton branch of the R.S. and S.I. League has received a letter from Mr. H. A. Leonard, engineer in charge of the construction of…

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Cablegrams. War Material Seized. London, Monday Night

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 20 June 1923 · page 2

Tho British destroyer Splendid seized Turkish transports in the Sea of Marmora with guns from Thrace…

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"To Stiffen Their Backs." Minister and Soldier Settlement. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 June 1923 · page 4

The Minister for Lands stated to-day that in re-allotting some of the farms at Bankstown Soldiers' Settlement he was proposing that some of the blocks be…

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Distressing Case. War Prisoner's Crime. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 3

David Austin. 47, pleaded guilty at the Darlinghurst Sessions to a charge of indecent assault on a young girl. It was stated that accused served in the…

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War Service Homes. Protest Against Eviction. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 June 1923 · page 3

At a meeting of the Grand Council of the War Service Association an emphatic protest was entered against the eviction of bona fide purchasers who are…

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A Dusseldorf Death Sentence. the Shooting of Belgian Soldiers. a German Version. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 June 1923 · page 3

The German Governor in the Dusseldorf area has appealed to the British Government through the British authorities at Cologne to use their…

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Mentally Unstable Soldiers. League Favors Special Institutions. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 June 1923 · page 5

The officials of the Returned Soldiers League favor the segregation, in special institutions of returned soldiers who through some mental instability have…

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Preference to Returned Soldiers

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 27 June 1923 · page 2

At the instance of Crs. Bennett and Faulks a motion was carried by the Dorrigo Shire Council about five or six years ago, that in future all things…

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Oldest Soldier

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 June 1923 · page 4

Mr. Charles Wooster, of Nabiac, Wallamba River, claims to be the oldest soldier or sailor in the Commonwealth, and the sole survivor of the contingent…

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Returned Soldiers' Meeting Postponed

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 June 1923 · page 4

The meeting of Grafton sup-branch of the R.S. and S.L. League, which was set down for Tuesday night last, had to be postponed account of the inclement…

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Telegrams. Maimed Soldiers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 June 1923 · page 5

The Parramatta Council has resolved to seek the co-operation of the metropolitan councils in an effort to prevent, in the interests of humanity, the necessity…

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Germans Arrested. Disguised As Belgian Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 June 1923 · page 5

Reuter's Paris correspondent says that a report has been received from Dusseldorf that the Belgian authorities have arrested a party of Germans…

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Labor and Capital. Harding Would Nationalise in War. New York

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 July 1923 · page 4

Speaking at Helena (Montana), President Holding repeated, in an impassioned appeal, that the United States' participation in a world court…

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A Sad Case. Returned Soldier Drowned

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 July 1923 · page 1

When a man's clothes were found on the bank of the Tweed River, near Kynnumboon Dip, on Wednesday morning, it was feared that a fatality had occurred…

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Returned Soldiers. Monthly Meeting. Badges for Nurses

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 July 1923 · page 6

The postponed meeting of the Grafton branch of the R.S. and S.I. League was held in Plummer's room last evening, those present being Messes. A. S. Allen…

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