Preference to Soldiers Wanted in All Ballots Sydney
The State Council of the Returned Soldiers' League has decided to ask all political organisations to give preference to returned soldiers in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1928
418 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 21
An Alleged Quarrel Man and Woman Wounded and Taken to Hospital Sydney
Muriel Rogers (25) and John Heffernan (31) were treated at the Sydney Hospital last night, the former for incised wounds in the left arm, scalp,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Alleged Quarrel Man and Woman Wounded and Taken to Hospital Sydney
Muriel Rogers (25) and John Heffer[?]an (31) were treated at the Sydney Hospital last night, the former for incised wounds in the left arm, scalp,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Foreign Influx in W.a. Supplanting Australians in the Kalgoorlie Mines Returned Soldiers Protest
It is stated that foreigners are steadily pushing British workers out of the mines here (says a Kalgoorlie message in the "Advertiser"). The position…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Earl Haig Dead Was Commander-in-chief During the Great War (A.p.a. Message.) London, January 30
The death is announced of Field-Marshal Earl Haig, of Bemersyde, at his London residence. The cause of death was heart disease. Earl Haig…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Earl Haig's Death American Appreciation of Work As a Soldier (A.p.a. Message.) Montreal, January 31
A Pittsburg message states that General Pershing, who was Commander-in-Chief of the United States Forces during the Great War, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Pension Case Man Is Pined £25 for Signing Wife's Name Adelaide
William Victor Rule, of Henley Beach, was charged in the Adelaide Police Court to-day" with having signed his wife's name for a war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Late Earl Haig Diary of His War Years to Be Opened in 1940 Edinburgh's Tribute (A.p.a. Message.) London, February 4
The "Daily Express" reveals, that Earl Haig shortly before his death deposited his diary of his war years with the trustees of the British Museum,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Pension Case Man Is Fined £25 for Signing Wife's Name Adelaide
William Victor Rule, of Henley Beach, was charged in the Adelaide Police Courf to-day with having signed his wife's name for a war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ex-soldier's Sufferings Recalled at Inquest London, February 5
Tue sufferings of a former soldier who had been captured at Kut-elAmaa (Mesopotamia), were recalled at an inquest to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Unemployed "Welcome Home" Planned for Mr. Bavin on Saturday Sydney
The One Big Union of Unemployed plans to give Mr. T. R. Bavin, the Premier, a "welcome home" when he returns from New Zealand on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Earl's War Gratuity (A.p.a. Message.) London, February 9
In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, told Mr. H. Day (Labor) that he had no legal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Daughter of Czar a Peasant Girl Impostor Says War Correspondent London, February 9
Mr. F. A. M'Kenzie (war correspondent), in an article in the "Daily News," declares that the peasant girl claiming to be the Grand Duchess…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Criminal War Victims London, February 10
Sir William Joynsonp-Hicks, the Home Secretary, said in the House of Commons to-day that while he sympathised with the recommendation of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Germany in Chains" Defence Minister and War Berlin, February 11
A picture of Germany in chains was painted by Dr. Groener, the new Defence Minister, when addressing the Budget committee of the Reichstag…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →German War Film Former Kaiser Boo-ed Berlin, February 10
The second part of the German official war film, "The Ordeal of the Nation," deals with the campaigns of 1915-16…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pilgrimage to War Zones Arrangements Made. for Australians' Visit
At least 300 Australian former-service men are invited to join the pilgrimage to war areas in August (reports the "Sun News-Pictorial")…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →National War Memorial Erection at Canberra Is Not to Be Delayed Sydney
An emphatic contradiction of the suggestions that the Federal Ministry intended to delay the erection of a National War Memorial at Canberra…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Service Plea Useless Magistrate's Plain Talk
"If you are going to bring any returned soldier business into this affair, I don't want to hear yon," said Mr. May, P.M., to a defendant in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Canberra War Memorial Work to Cost £250,000
Modified designs for the Australian War Memorial at Canberra have been accepted by the Wa Mremorial Board (says a Canberra message in the "Daily…
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