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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

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TUG-O-WAR Sidelights on Pelton's Team

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 May 1936 · page 3

Pelton Lodge have already to train for the trig tug-o-war to be held on Sunday, Kay Slat. Last Saturday afternoon, behind the United…

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SCOUTING Enjoyable Evening "The Boer War"

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 May 1936 · page 7

The Boor War was fought all over again last Wednesday night by 1st West Maitland Troop. It had been arranged for tho scouts to…

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Karuah a Welcome Home

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1936 · page 3

It was a warm home-coming for Mr. Claude Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Johnson, when he arrived home early in the week after a long stretch…

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Tug O' War The Elrington Team CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 May 1936 · page 12

Monitors of the E[?]rlngton Miners' Lodge are becoming enthusiastic concerning the prospects of their team winning the tug-O-war championship…

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Soldiers League State Secretaries Visit

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 May 1936 · page 6

On Tuesday, May 19, at 8 p.m ex-servicemen of Maitland will have an opportunity of hearing the objects and any matters pertaining to the…

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TUG-O'-WAR Elrington Team

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 3

Members of the Elrington Miners' Lodge are becoming very enthusiastic regarding their prospects of winning the tug-o'-war championship,…

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Popular Pair War Bridge and Dance

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 6

The supper dance and war bridge, held in the Cathedral Hall, West Maitland, last night, In support of the popular pair, John Kennedy and Pat…

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War Danger Attitude of Labour Policy Statement London, May 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 1

Asserting, the danger of war as a grim reality the Council of Labour today issued a new policy statement advocating collective…

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Lord Allenby War Leader Passes Died in His Study London, May 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 1

Fleld-Marohal Lord Allenby, Commander-in-chief of the Expe­ditionary Force, which met with brilliant success in the Palestine campaign, and after the war High Commissioner for Egypt between 1919, and 1926, died suddenly to­day, aged 75…

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Battlefields and War Memorials Pilgrimage the Coronation Year Tour. Under Auspices of R.S.S.I.L.A.

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 6

A Battlefields and War Memorials Pilgrimage has been organised by the Melbourne Sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League…

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Death of Field-marshal Lord Allenby Associated with A.I.F. in War (Australian. Press Assn. Message. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 1

The death is announced of FieldMarshal Lord Allenby, aged 75, who was associated with the A.I.F. in the great war as leader of some of the…

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State Official East Maitland Visit Returned Soldiers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 6

On Monday night next, for the first time since Its re-organisation, four or five yours ago, the East Maitland sub-branch of the…

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Young Man Terribly Injured Under Goods Train War Risk Italian Warning Determined London, May 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1936 · page 1

"It is urgently necessary that Britain should realise that Italy has taken up a posi-tion which only war can…

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Weston Effort For Returned Soldiers Capacity House Weston

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1936 · page 2

To raise funds to carry on the good work, of assisting the returned sol-diers of the locality, the members of the Weston sub-branch held a concert…

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Tug-o'-war

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 5

A correspondent signing himself "Sportman" writes:— Evey person you meet in the street, or elsewhere, is talking…

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TUG-O'-WAR Pull on Horseback

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 5

When the championship of the north is being staged in Cessnock. in a few weeks' time, spectators will see something that has never been…

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Tug-o-war Tattle Pellets from Paxton

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 1

Pelton team is putting iu some very promising work on the cleats. They are practicing three times a week and no not…

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BATTLEFIELDS & War Memorials Pilgrimage. Coronation Year Tour

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 4

A Battlefields and War Memorials Pilgrimage has been organised by the Melbourne sub-branch of the returned Sailors' and Soldiers' League to tour…

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War Debts New Settlement Basis Advocacy in Britain and France London, May 17

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 1

An early opening of negotiations with the United States for a new war debts settlement is being urged by influential persons in London, and…

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Anzac Wreaths Complaint to Council "No Reverence"

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 May 1936 · page 2

A complaint was received from the East Maitland Sub-Branch of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League of Australia at the West…

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