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The wars & local soldiers, 1928

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War Memorial. at Villers—bretonneux London. March 22

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 12

The South Australian Agent general (Mr. Price) who has returned from a tour of the battlefields, where he went at the invitation of the War…

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Indignant Outburst Brussels War Veterans, Brussels, March 30

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 5

There is an indignant outburst of war veterans and patriotic societies against the Louvain University's proposal to delete from the…

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Obituary Boer War Court-martial Recalled. London, March 25

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 13

The death is announced of Samuel Clowes, M.P. The death is also announced of Arthur price otherwise Richard…

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Conscription of Wealth. in the Event of War. Canadian Motion Ottawa. March 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 12

The Government is opposed to a resolution introduced by Mr. William Irvine proposing the conscription of wealth in the event of a…

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Amalgamation. Singleton Soldiers' League. and Mechanics Institute

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 11

Some time ago the Singleton subbranch of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors Imperial League made overtures for amalgamation with the…

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Soldiers' Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 4

A meeting of the Returned Soldiers' and Sallors' Imperial Leage Maitland branch) will be held in the club rooms on Monday night…

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Amalgamation. Soldiers' League and Singleton Mechanics' Institute. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 9

A special general mooting of members of the Mechanics Institute was held to confirm proposals for amalgamation between the commuted of…

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Soldiers' Reunions

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 4

12th L. H., REGIMENT. The 12th Light Horse Regiment, A.I.F., is holding its annual smoke in Sargent's, Market-street, Sydney, on…

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Amalgamation Mechanics' Institute and Returned Soldiers' Club

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 6

The proposals for amalgamation of the bodies known as Singleton Mechanics' Institute committee and Singleton sub-branch of the…

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Western Soldiers' Settlement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 April 1928 · page 4

A deputation from Weston Soldiers' Settlement walled on Messrs. George Booth and W. F. O'Hearn, Ms.L.A., and told them that conditions at the…

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War Monument. Planned by Paris War Veterans. Paris, April 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 April 1928 · page 4

A group of war veterans is planing to erect a war monument, if possible, near the league building at Geneva, depicting only the horrible…

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Appeals Board. Disabled Returned Soldiers. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 April 1928 · page 5

The State Secretary of the Returned Soldeiers' League, Mr. Stagg, expressed the hope to-day that the Government would institute an…

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Woman Wounded Husband Acquitted on Serious Charge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 April 1928 · page 3

Harold William Hitchcock was found not guilty in the Criminal Court, Perth, on a charge of having, on March 2, attempted to kill his…

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War Sufferers Independent Appeals Board Wanted. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 April 1928 · page 2

The State secretary of the Returned Soldiers' League, Mr Stagg, expressed the hope to-day that the Government would institute an independent…

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Anti-war Pact. Signatures of British Dominions, Washington, April 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 April 1928 · page 4

In the event of Great Britain adhering to the proposed anti-war pact, Mr. Kelogg, Secretary of State, said the question of the dominion…

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Shell Explosions. Relics of the War. Five Persons Killed. Paris, April 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 April 1928 · page 5

Five persons were killed by explosions of shells, picked up on the battlefields to-day. A workman picked up a shell and…

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Libless Soldiers Musicians in City League Executives' Views. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 April 1928 · page 5

At a meeting, of the State Executive of the R.S.L. a letter was received expressing "Protest and amazement' at the action of the executive in…

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Unknown Soldier. in Callan Park Hospital. Identification Complete. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 April 1928 · page 5

The unknown soldier in Captain Park Mental Hospital was positively indentified yesterday as Thomas George McQuay, of New Zealand, by…

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Weston Soldiers' Settlement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 April 1928 · page 4

Mr. George Booth, M.L.A., is urging the Lands Department to Withdraw the eviction notices issued to tenants at the Weston Soldiers'…

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Weston Soldiers' Settlement. Eviction Orders Threatened

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 5 April 1928 · page 6

Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., has made an emphatic protest against the action of the Lands Department in threatening to evict tennis on the…

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