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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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A Typical Anzac

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 3

To-morrow the name of Anzac will be on the lips of all Australians. Men of the type shown in the picture won unperishable fame for Australia when they stormed the heighs of Gallipoli…

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Anzac Plans for Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 1

SYDNEY, Saturday.—The State Governor Lord Wakehurst) and the Archbishop of Sydney (Dr. Mowll) will lead the Anzac dawn service at…

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Anzac Plans for Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 7

SYDNEY, Saturday.—The State Governor (Lord Wakehurst) and the Archbishop of Sydney (Dr. Mowll) will lead the Anzac dawn service at…

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Comments Of Readers Anzac Day

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 3

To the Editor, Sir.—Once again we join to commemorate April 25, 1915, when the Australians first entered into the terrible four years of the…

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Comments Of Readers Anzac Day

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 3

To the Editor, Sir.—Once again we join to commemorate April 25, 1915, when the Australians first entered into the terrible four years of the…

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War Worry At Home

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 5

WAR-WORRY at home, too. Jim, not yet 17, straining to go. "Gee, dad, you let Bill go. I can fight as well as he can. Mean to say you…

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War Worry At Home

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 5

WAR-WORRY at home, too. Jim, not yet 17, straining to go. "Gee, dad, you let Bill go. I can fight as well as he can. Mean to say you…

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Anzac Race Meeting at Morphettville Excellent Fields for All Events Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 8

AN Anzac charity race meeting will be held at Morphettville on Monday, an excellent programme having been arranged. Some keen racing should be witnessed. The following table gives a list of…

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Barrier Miner Saturday, April 24, 1937 the Spirit of Anzac Lives Again

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 2

TO-MORROW, April 25, is the twenty-second anniversary of the day on which the name of Australia became inscribed on the register of…

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Barrier Miner Saturday, April 24, 1937 the Spirit of Anzac Lives Again

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 2

TO-MORROW, April 25, is the twenty-second anniversary of the day on which the name of Australia became inscribed on the register of…

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Anzac's Sorrow and Glory Live Again Everlasting "Straw" Flowers And Types For Cutting

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 5

Everlasting flowers are once more becoming popular in Australia. This is not to be wondered at when we realise how easy these flowers are to grow, and how brilliant their coloring. Moreover, if hung heads…

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Broken Hill Remembers Many Services Planned for Anzac Day Diggers' Reunion To-night

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 3

STARTING with the re-union and smoke social to-night, followed by the impressive dawn service to-morrow and culminating with services in all churches in Broken Hill at night, Anzav Day celebrations and…

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Anzac's Sorrow and Glory Live Again Everlasting "Straw" Flowers And Types For Cutting

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 5

Everlasting flowers are once more becoming popular in Australia. This is not to be wondered at when we realise how easy these flowers are to grow, and, how brilliant their coloring. Moreover, if hung heads…

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Broken Hill Remembers Many Services Planned for Anzac Day Diggers' Reunion To-night

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 3

STARTING with the re-union and smoke social to-night, followed by the impressive dawn service to-morrow and culminating with services in all churches in Broken Hill at night, Anzav Day celebrations and…

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King's Invitation To War Pensioner (Special to "The Mirier"). LONDON, April 24

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 7

TT is all very wonderful," says Mrs. Mary O'Connor, of Sheffield, whom the King has invited to the coronation. Mrs. O'Connor, who had three…

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King's Invitation To War Pensioner (Special to "The Miner"). LONDON, April 24

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 1

"IT is all very wonderful," says Mrs. Mary O'Connor, of Sheffield, whom the King has invited to the coronation. Mrs. O'Connor, who had three…

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World Remembers— and Mourns What War Meant To Men And Mothers At Home Memories Come Back

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 5

TO-MORROW at dawn the hollow note of the bugle will sound in a thousand Australian towns and cities its echoing tribute to the heroes of Anzac —alive and dead. Memories of 22 years ago will be…

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World Remembers— and Mourns What War Meant To Men And Mothers At Home Memories Come Back

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 5

TO-MORROW at dawn the hollow note of the burgle will sound in a thousand Australian towns and cities its echoing tribute to the heroes of Anzac —alive and dead. Memories of 22 years ago will be…

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Bible Comes Back Given Soldier 20 Years Ago Surprise for Mother Port Pirie

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 3

ON December 20, 1915, Pte. Edger W. Parham, home in Port Pirie on final leave before going overseas to fight, was handed by his mother…

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Enlisted in Broken Hill

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 3

Lieut. John Joseph Graves, who died in the Royal North Shore Hospital recently and who was caretaker of the Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park,…

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