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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1916

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The War and the P.[?] [To the Editor]

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 2

SIR,--I am but schoing the opinions of many residents to whom I have spoken when I say that your leading article of last issue [?] recruiting is most warmly…

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Telegrams. the War. Mesopotamia. Fierce Fighting. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 4

It is officially stated that Colonel Aylmer attacked the Turks at Essin on Friday. There was fierce fighting, and the casualties were heavy on both sides…

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The War. Allies' Air Raid. Monastir Bombed. All Aircraft Returned

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 2

LONDON, Monday. — Mr. Ward Price reports that 32 French acroplanes started from Salonika on Sunday and flow as regular squadrons in…

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The War Day By Day. Fleet Busy. Dedeagatch Attacked. London, Jan. 21

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 2

A message from Salonika states that French, Italian, and three Birtish warships bombarded Dadeagatch. They blew up two docks and…

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The Latest. the War. The Balkans. the Montenegrins' Plight. the Bombardment of Dede Agatch. Paris

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 2

M. Naudeau telegraphs to the "Journal" from Petrograd denying that the Montenegrin army at Loveen numbered 35,000, or that 30,000 Serbs helped to defend Loveen. He adds that…

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Shocking Accident. Soldier Under Moving Train

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 4

A shocking accident occurred at the Junee station about 6.30 on Friday evening. The usual crowd was standing or moving about the station…

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Soldiers Leaving Young

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 1

The local Recruiting Association will not in future be able to obtain the services of the Town Band on every occasion when soldiers may be…

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Soldiers' Letters

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 3

The following letter has been received by Miss Phillips (of the Soldier's League) from Pte G. Causer who received her parcel she recently…

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Soldiers' Club for Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 2

A committee meeting was held in the Town Hall on Monday night to take steps to form a soldiers' club for the men of the Goulburn depot camp. The Mayor presided over a good…

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Returned Soldier Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 4

Junee, Sunday.—As the Sydney mail train was about to leave the station a returned soldier, wounded at Gallipoli, named James M'Donald, was saying good-bye to some friends,…

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Goulburn and the War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 2

Mrs. Cunningham, of "Arundel," East Goulburn, received a cable on Monday from her son, Trooper Roy Cunningham, informing her of his safe arrival in Maadi, Egypt, on the 17th…

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The War. the Blockade

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 3

London, January 25.—Fifteen cases labelled "Hammers" were seized on the Swedish steamer Varna, bound from America to Copenhagen, which contained…

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Bommonwealth War loan Closing Date 1st February

The Yass Courier · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 2

As the date approaches on which the list of the second issue of the Commonwealth War Loan is to close, the question which each of…

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The War. Going to Win. Mr. Lloyd George Confident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 4

London, Jan. 24.—Mr. Lloyd George (Minister of Munitions), in a striking interview, said:—"We are going to win. England is preparing to put her whole weight into the war, the…

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The Latest. the War. The Blockade. SIR E. Grey's Statement

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 2

Mr. A. S. Benn in the House of Commons moved a resolution urging the Government to enforce as effective a blockade as possible without interfering with neutral countries' normal…

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Telegrams the War. Western Front. Dunkirk Bombarded. a German Failure. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 4

Official:—Two aeroplanes dropped bombs on Dunkirk. A British machine forced a German seaplane to the water northward of Nieuport. PARIS, Tuesday…

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Soldiers Entertained

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 4

On Tuesday the weekly entertainment provided for "the soldiers in St. Saviour's Church Hall was largely attended. Amongst those present were several new arrivals at the camp…

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Soldier's Skull Fractured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 2

Early on Wednesday morning Private George Halloran (45), stationed at Casula camp, was returning, in company with a fellow-soldier, to the Central Railway Station in order to catch a…

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A Soldier and Drink. Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 2

The magistrate at the Central Police Court made an order that Thomas Keating be detained in an inebriates' home for twelve months. It was stated that Keating enlisted and got as…

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Soldier Dangerously Injured. Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 2

Rather than wait for a later train a soldier named Milton Todd mounted the engine tender of the 11 o'clock train from Sydney to Liverpool last night. He was shaken off by the vibration…

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