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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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Homeville-Telarah Soldiers Presentation Committee

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Homeville-Telarah Soldiers' Presentation Committee was held on Wednesday evening last in Messrs. Green and Nichols' building, Homeville. The…

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New Zealand Soldiers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 5

So far New Zealand soldiers, sick or wounded, who returned to the Dominion, number 14,240. Work has been found for 10,195, and 1639 cases are being dealt…

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Soldiers' Letters

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 3

Pte. Albert Diemar writes to his parents at Nelson's Bay, from France :— This is the first letter I have written to you since I have been wounded…

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Local War Casualties. Killed in Action

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 4

Mr. J. Garaty, of Morpeth, received word through the Very Rev. P. T. Corcora, P.P., on Saturday last that her son, Lieu. Jack Garaty, had been killed in action in…

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Soldiers' Welcome Home. Horseshoe Bend Gathering

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 7

Bearing honourable wounds, received in the thick of battle on the western front, Pte. Harald Mannall, son of Mr. C. T. Mannall, president of the Maitland Patriotic Committee,…

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New South Wales. Killed in Action

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 6

Ptes, G. Seers, Newcastle; W. Smithers, Wallsend F. Meadoweroft, Cook's Hill; Lee-cpi. A. w. Dodd, Cook's Hil; ftes. c. eaton, Newcastle, F. c. Sims,…

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Slightly Wounded

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 2

Private Charles Wallace, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Wallace has been wounded (slightly) a second time, in France…

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War Aims

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 4

Mr. Lloyd George's recent declaration of the war aims of the Allies is naturally' receiving world-wide attention. The collapse of Russia s and the Bolshevik negotiations with the…

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British Chivalry to Germans. Instances Among Walking Wounded

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 7

In an attractively descriptive article on the work of the Y.M.C.A. for the walking wounded, Albert H. Elliot makes special reference to the spirit of brotherhood which…

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War Loan Bonds

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 2

In order to facilitate the investment of small amounts in the War Loan, the Commonwealth Treasurer has approved of the acceptance of War Savings certificates in part…

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The "Walking" Wounded. Fine Y.m.c.a. Service

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 7

"The biggest single phase of the whole work that the Y.M.C.A. is doing on the Western front at present is ministering to the walking wounded," says an Australian…

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The War British Front

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 8

London. Thursday.—Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: Both artilleries were active at a number of points southward of the Scarpa. There was some…

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War Loan Bonds. Ready for Delivery

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 3

The Commonwealth Bunk of Australia, notifies that Subscribers, who have paid their Instalments in full to the 4th War Loan, may now obtain…

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Australian War Prisoners. Arrangements for Parcels

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 2

Ninety-eight men including 10 officers, reached Switzerland on December. None were seriously wounded, but many were ill through the hard…

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The War. British Gain's and Losses

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 2

The War Office reports that the British captured in 1917 on the western theatre 73,131 prisoners and 531 guns, in Palestine, 17,646 prisoners and 108…

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After the War. Labour Designs. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 11

The Labour party has issued a draft report outlining its policy of after-war reconstruction which will be considered by the Party Conference in June. It says that…

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War Situation. British Expert's View. London, Wednesday Night

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 11

General Maurice, Director of Military Operations, in his weekly review, after stating that the enemy's efforts to get the ridge on the right flank of the Cambrai…

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British War Work. Visit to Midlands. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 2

At the invitation of the Government a party of Dominion journalists visited one of the busiest munition centres of the Midlands. The degree to which comparatively small…

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War Aims. Mr. Balfour at Edinburgh. LONDON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 5

Mr. Balfour at a meeting on war alms at Edinburgh unreservedly eulogised President Wilson's declaration of the United States which had but recently taken its…

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U.s. Women at War Work. an Early Awakening. Philadelphia

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 11

Our British experiences of two years ago repeat themselves daily here. The women are quickly adopting manly trades. At a first glance of America at war I had…

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