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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1933

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Missing Soldiers on Somme 800 Bodies Found and Reburied Each Year

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 April 1933 · page 8

Bodies of British soldiers are being found on the Somme battlefields at the rate of about 800 a year. This is revealed in the recent annual…

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Anzac Day March Governor-General's Message SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 April 1933 · page 1

Plans are afoot to make this year's Antac Day march in Sydney the biggest on record. Sir Isaac Isaacs, the…

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Closing Of Hotels On Anzac Day

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 19 April 1933 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. L. O. Martin, Minister for Justice, has decided that the same course as was followed last year in connection with…

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No Operation Yet On Wounded Schoolboy ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 April 1933 · page 1

No operation has yet been performed on Mervyn Sydney Smoker, the 12-year-old schoolboy, who was mysteriously shot on…

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Observance of Anzac Day Town Hall Service On Sunday Smoke Social

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 April 1933 · page 2

Anzac Day will be observed by a special commemoration service in the Town Hall on Sunday afternoon, special services in the…

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"War Will Rear Its Head Again" Governor-General's Warning Opens Museum Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 April 1933 · page 3

"Sincere as are our aspirations for peace and our desire to live in amity with all mankind and look upon every nation as a friend,…

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Observance of Anzac Day Service At Town Hall To-morrow

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 2

The observance of Anzac Day in Broken Hill, will begin to-morrow, when a special service will be held in the Town Hall in commemoration…

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Observance of Anzac Day Service At Town Hall To-morrow

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 2

The observance of Anzac Day in Broken Hill will begin to-morrow, when a special service will be held in the Town Hall in commemoration…

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The Barrier Miner Monday, April 24, 1933. Anzac

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 April 1933 · page 2

As the years pass by the annual celebration of Anzac Day becomes of more and more real importance. It is almost impossible for some of us…

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Anti-War Committee

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 April 1933 · page 2

Mr. I. S. Yeo (secretary) has forwarded a report of the Anti-War Committee meeting which wan held at the W.I.U. band room on Sunday…

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Anzac Service Held at Town Hall Occasional Address Given By Rev. J. C. Barrett a Large Attendance

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 April 1933 · page 3

The eighteenth annual commemoration of the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli on April 25, 1[?]15,…

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Anti-war Propaganda Meeting At Adelaide Trades Hall Last Friday. Different Opinions Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 April 1933 · page 3

Delegates from political and other bodies met at the Trades Hall last night to debate an anti-war motion. Before any discussion had taken…

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ROOSEVELT & Macdonald Talk for Six Hours Agreement In Principle On Important Matters No War Debts Settlement (Special to "The Miner.") WASHINGTON, April 23

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 April 1933 · page 1

President Roosevelt and Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, the British Prime Minister, spent most of Saturday in the beautiful oval room at the White House scated at a table facing each other, their feet on the same tiger skin, holding a consultation at the bedside of a sick…

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Readers' Column Anzac Commemoration

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 2

From "Returned Soldier."— As an act of remembrance to those former employees and townsmen. who gave their lives in the Great War,…

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Anzac Hero's Mother Dead MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 1

At an Anzac Day reunion in man Brigadier-General C. H. Brand, when asked what episode in the Gallipoli campaign had mnde the most lasting…

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Shots Fired From Car; Man Wounded

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Several shots were fired last evening, at St. Kilda, irom a motor car which was afterwards driven rapidly away, and…

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Anzac Memorial Service at Fallen Soldiers' Memorial a Representative Gathering An Impressive Tribute To The Fallen Best Service for Years

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 1

Eighteen,years ago to-day the Anzacs scaled the heights of Gallipoli and won for themselves and their country imperishable fame. Beneath the shadow of the Bomber, the imposing Broken Hill fallen soldiers' memorial, loyal eitizena stood to-day for 20 minutes paying…

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Deaths Since Armistice Equal War Deaths

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Though the Returned Soldiers League is not in possossion of authentic figures regarding the number of deaths among…

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Irishman Seeks Adventure Searching For Two Ex-Soldiers 'Ragtime' Fights Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 3

An Irishman who has had much amusement and adventure in his life, but wants more, is a passenger to Melbourne on the Baradine. He…

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Returned Soldiers' Smoke Social Large Attendance At Anzac Reunion

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 April 1933 · page 3

The annual smoke social in commemoration of Anzac Day was held at the Soldiers' Hostel last night. There was a large attendance of…

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