More Wounded Returning
The next batch of wounded soldiers from Gallipoli is expected to arrive in Sydney on Tuesday next. There are on board the transport six officers, 52…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1916
5,360 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 250
Heroes, Again. Wounded Soldiers Rescue Girl From Drowning
Two returned wounded soldiers, Trooper W. Beaton and Private H. C. R. Davies, who are inmates of the Rose Hall Convalescent Home in Forbes-street, Darlinghurst,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Anzac Withdrawal. How the Task Was Accomplished. Detailed Narrative. Anzac Bay. Dec. 19
There miles away from me, across a grey, silky sea, lies the dark shape of the land Eight months ago, just as the first lemongrey of dawn was breaking over that long…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →More Wounded and Sick. 396 Returning
A cablegram has just been received by headquarters that another vessel with wounded and sick on, board has left Suez for Australia. She was due at Colombo on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Federal Capital. Name It Anzac. London. Dec. 31
The "Manchester Guardian" says, that Canberra may well give place to Anzac— one of the most illustrious names in history. Surely there was never so happy a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anzac. the Evacuation. Graphic Stories. London, Dec. 31
Eye-witnesses of the Anzac evacuation state that the calmness of the weather counted an immense part in the success of the undertaking. When the order was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Sick and Wounded. a Transport from Suez
Sydney, Friday.—A transport left Suez on December 13, and is due at Melbourne on January 3. Her sick and wounded include Captain T. R. Swallow,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Very Arduous War
"We are in a state of very arduous war, calling for heavy sacrifices, both of money and of life, in the present, and almost certainly far still heavier in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commonwealth War Loan
Everyone has the right to subscribe all the money they choose the new Commonwealth War Loan, but be it many hundreds or few, or even a modest £10, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Year of War
A few facts sketching the progress of the great war during 1916 should be of interest. The year opened with the Allied and the German forces…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Australian Wounded. Christmas in London. Homeland Memories. London, Dec. 25
Every Australian and New Zealand soldier in Great Britain spent his Christmas merrily. Anglo-Australians have been preparing for months to ensure that been was overlooked…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War and the Styles
Is there any connection between war and the styles If so, what is the reason why, with the biggest war on in history, styles should be more decadent than ever?…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A New War Map
We have to acknowledge from Mr H. E. C. Robinson, of 221 George-street, Sydney, the receipt of a, very clear and useful war map of the Balkans. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War. Compulsory Service
The Britsh Cabinet has decided to introduce a bill in the House of Commons to provide for compulsory service of single men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Go on with the War."
Mr. Philip Gibbs, writing from the British front in Flanders, says:— "The only carol heard in the trenches was the loud, deep chant of tho guns on both sides, the shrill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Nation's War Spending. Reassuring Views
In the "British Weekly" of Nov 4. Sir. L. Choiuzza Money, M.P., deals with the war spending ina very instructive manner. He says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cabinet and War Council. London
A Cabinet meeting lasted two and a half hours. Mr. Asquith immediately afterwards held a War Council, at which Lord Kitchener, Sir Edward Grey, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Day of Prayer. Nation and the War
To-morrow (Sunday) is to be observed in all the churches throughout the Em pire as a day of united prayer in regard to the war…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Barring the Exploiter Tariffs After the War
We are, to banish the German exploiter from our self-contained British Empire. Our own duty is particularly to banish him from Australia. During the war we shall buy only…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Spelter Contract. Dissolved by War. London, Dec. 22
In September last, in the King's Bench Division of the High Court, the Zinc Corporation asked for a declaration that a contract made in April, 1914, to sell…
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