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

The wars & local soldiers, 1919

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Goulburn District Soldiers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 March 1919 · page 1

Mr. Jas. Granger, "Oakdale," Collector, recently received the following letter from Capt. Wyllie, of the 55th Battalion, relating to the death of the late Lance-Corporal E. D…

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Putting Soldiers on Farms

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 March 1919 · page 1

Mr. Holman, the Premier. opened an agricultural show at Gundagai on Thursday. He gave some particulars of what the Government is doing and intends to do in settling soldiers on…

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Welcome Home

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 2

A social was held in the Kialla Methodist Church on Thursday evening, 13th inst, to tender a welcome to Pte Austin Price, son of Mr and Mrs…

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Unique Welcome Home

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 4

Recently a welcome home was given by the people of Bateman's Ray to a young half-caste who took part in the fighting in France. He was met at the punt and escorted through…

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Narrawa. A Welcome Home

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 2

A very pleasing function look place at "Hollywood," on Saturday, 15th March, the occasion being a welcome home and presentation to Corporal…

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Bendick Morrell Welcome Home

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 4

A welcome home was tendered Lance Corporal Bell find Ewan M.M.'s on Friday night inst. when one of the largest assembleges at any similar…

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Brisbane Riot. Returned Soldiers and Russians Many Men Wounded

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 2

Brisbane, Monday.— The trouble started yesterday by a procession of "red-flaggers' defying the authorities and marching through the city developed in a sensational manner this evening,…

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Goulburn and the War. Welcome Homes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 2

The Goulburn City and District Band were out in full force to meet one of their returned heroes (Private Bert Lee) by the 10.30 train on Monday night. The band played patriotic…

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Wombat Welcome to Returned Soldiers

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 4

Probably the largest gathering on record met at the Mechanics Institute at Wombat, on 21st Inst, to welcome home four of their local soldiers. The…

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Homes for Soldiers

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 4

Local Repatriation committees have been circularised as to the conditions upon which homes can be acquired by returned soldiers, extracts from…

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I.o.o.f. Welcome to Returned Soldier

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 4

The Young Lodge, L.O.O.F. tendered a welcome home to ex-Private A. T. Clarke in the Oddfellows Hall last night. The large gathering was a…

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General News Returned Soldier's Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 3

Sergeant Fred Yeomans, of Arramagong East, who returned from the war on Saturday after four years service, met with a nasty accident, as a…

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Brisbane Bolsheviks Returned Soldiers Take a Hand Federal and State Action Sought Brisbane

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 2

Returned soldiers last night attacked the Bolsheviks headquarters in Brisbane, which was surrounded by a strong cordon of police. The street…

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Goulburn Returned Soldiers' Progress Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 2

A meeting of the executive committee of the Goulburn Returned Soldiers' Progress Association was held on Sunday last. It was proposed to place the meeting on a solid…

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Goulburn and the War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 March 1919 · page 2

Pte. Lonsdale, a brother of Mrs. Don Spink, of Eastgrove, recently returned to England. His arrival caused some stir, and papers printed reproductions of his photograph. Pte. Lonsdale…

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Canada's War Bill. PARIS, March 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 March 1919 · page 2

Reuter's Staff reports that Canada has completed its war costs bill, which will shortly be submitted to the Reparation Commission. It is understood that it will amount to between…

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Returned Soldier Welcomed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 March 1919 · page 4

Corporal Allan Speer, who returned by the Ulysses from his two years' captivity as a prisoner of war in Germany, was tendered a Welcome at his home at Bowral on Saturday evening…

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Soldier's Letter

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 28 March 1919 · page 2

Private Austin Gillespie, son of Mr. and Mrs J. Gillespie, junr., of Kialla, writing to his parents from Paris, says:-- Well, I'm back in Paris…

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Goulburn and the War. How an Escape Was Effected. Tunnel Dug with Table Knives

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 March 1919 · page 2

The Misses Hunt, of the Joppa Tea Rooms, have received a letter from Pte. J. R. Cash, who was in the Goulburn Camp. Writing from Weymouth, 2nd February, he says:-Home…

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Soldiers and Bolsheviks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 March 1919 · page 4

A deputation of returned soldiers on Thursday interviewed the Chief Secretary concerning Bolshevism. They requested that the Bolsheviks in Sydney be not allowed to hold any…

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