Returned Soldier's Crutch Breaks
A one-legged returned soldier named Cox, a spectator at the All Blacks v. South Grafton football match at Fisher Park on Saturday afternoon, broke his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1930
333 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 17
Anzac Day "The Debt We Owe" United Service
The Rev. W. D. Mellwraith presided at a united service in commemoration of Anzac Day at the Methodist Church on Friday night. The "Invocation" was said…
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The Anzac concert by the Maclean Choral Society at Maclean. on Friday night last ranks as one of the best concerts given at Maclean. It was arranged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anzac Day Celebrations United Service at Ulmarra Address by Rev. G. A. Little
There was a large gathering at the united Anzac service, held in the Memorial Park, Ulmarra on Sunday. The service commenced with the hymn, "All…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lower Clarence Soldiers Reunion Dinner
On Friday last, Anzac Day, the returned soldiers of the Lower Clarence gathered at the Morpeth Hotel, Harwood, for a reunion dinner. The chair was occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vehicular Taxation Returned Soldiers' Inquiries Under-secretary Replies
A short while ago an inquiry was made through Mr. Pollack, M.L.A., for information relative to the registration fees on motor cars and whether reductions' were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →'Clubbed' Returned Soldiers' Complaint Federal Government's Preference to Unionists. Melbourne
The chairman of the Employment Committee of the Victorian Returned Soldiers' League, Mr. Hopkinson, to-day informed the State Council of the League, that a…
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The Anzac service held in the Memorial Hall on Sunday afternoon last was well attended by old and young. The hymns were most heartily sung,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maclean War Memorial Meeting of Committee
In opening a meeting of the Soldiers' War Memorial Committee at Maclean on Wednesday, the president (Mr. O. R. Kelly) congratulated the committee on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Suicide at Wirrialpa Returned Soldier's Sad Passing
A young man named William James Reid, a returned soldier, was found dead in his home at Wirrialpa on Wednesday morning by his mother,…
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Messrs. Gardem and Nash, as a deputation from the Returned Soldiers' League, told the Kempse; Municipal Council on Monday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grazier's Suicide at Warialpa Station Returned Soldier with Several Decorations. Dorrigo
A grazier named William James Reid aged 35, single, was found dead by his mother early yesterday morning with a wound in his head and a rifle at his side…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier's Body to Be Reburied. Sydney
Arrangements are being made by the Returned Soldiers' League for the exhumation of the body of a British soldier which has been in a pauper's grave at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Word "Anzac."
At the commemoration service at the Ross Hill Public School on Anzac Day, the Rev. Emlyn James, B.A., B.D., used the following apt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Employment of Returned Soldiers Federal Works Department Innovation Preference Clause Revised for Unionists. "Unionism to Come Before War Service" Adverse Criticism In Both Houses Of Parliament Leagues Everywhere Express Indignation
The other day Mr. While, M.H.R., asked the Prime Minister whether it was a fact that the preference to returned soldiers clause had been deleted from the Public Works Department forms, and Mr. Scullin admitted that an alteration had been made and that preference was to be given to soldiers who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Whittling at the Soldier's Privilege
With characteristic directness of speech, Mr. Roland Green summed up very concisely the reason why there is indignation concerning the Federal Government's decision to alter the basis of preference to returned soldiers in the public works contracts of the Commonwealth. The subject was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers' Preference R.S.L. President on Government's Policy. Melbourne
"Sectional control run riot," was how the president of the Victorian Returned Soldiers' League, Mr. G. W. Holland, described the Federal Government's policy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →African Mob Police Use Revolvers Five Dead--many Wounded Constable Felled with Axe. Capetown
Five natives were killed, 36 seriously injured and many slightly hurt, in a conflict between over 500 natives, many of whom were under the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suicide at Wirrialpa. Returned Soldier's Sad Passing
A young man named William James Reid, a returned soldier, was found dead in his home at Wirrialpa on Wednesday morning by his mother…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PROTEST! Ex-Soldiers To Scullin the Preference Clause Censure Motions in Both Houses. Canberra
Returned soldiers, through their Federal president, Captain Dyctt, to-day made a further protest to the Federal Government against its…
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