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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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Anzac Day

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 2

A civic service commemorative of Anzac Day will be held at Christ Church at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday next to which all public bodies are invited…

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Anzac Day. Arrangements Finalised

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 1

At a well-attended meeting of the committee of the Returned Soldiers' Club, held last night, arrangements in connection with the Anzac Day…

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Anzac Day. Arrangements for Scone Observance

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 1

Anzac Day (Sunday next, 25th inst.) will be observed in Scone on the lines of past commemorations. Wreaths will be placed on the…

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Anzac Day East Maitland Plans Dawn Service

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 6

Anzac Day will be given a new significance at East matland next Sunday when for the first time a dawn service is to be held. The idea is…

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Business Men "Spirit Of Anzac" Tradition Upheld

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 7

The attendance at the Maitland Business Men's Club's weekly lunch on. held at the West Maitland .Methodist Memorial Hall…

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Anzac Day

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 6

Our Anzac dead are scattered wide. On many a land, 'neath many a tide. Their country's call-for them a knoll. They answered,- even are it fell-…

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Military Plans Anzac Day Celebrations

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 4

Every effort is to be put forward by the 18th Battalion (the Maitland Regiment) and the 16th Light", Horse (Machine Gun) Regiment to make the…

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Anzac Day Muswellbrook's Plans Parade Arranged Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 2

Anzac Day will be observed by the holding of a church parade in which returned soldiers, the band Junior Red Cross members, and Boy Scouts…

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Enlistments Required

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 4

No, 2 Troop A Squadron of the 10th Light Horse (Machine Gun) Regiment at Singleton has been disbanded, and training activities of this regiment are…

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Returned Soldier's Lapse Six Months' Imprisonment Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 2

John Kempton, a labourer, was sentenced to six months hard labour at the Central Court to-day on a charge of endeavouring to obtain identification…

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Anzac Day Game

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 10

Seeing that sporting bodies are having such hard time to keep up attendances, it was thought that the Newcastle officials would have shown more…

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Anzac Day Morpeth Celebration '

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 6

Rev. W. E. K. Burkitt will officiate at the Anzac Day Morpeth on Sunday next. There will be a procession from St. James' Church to…

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War Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 2

In aid of the Dominloan Ex-Students annual danes funds, a war bridge evening will be hold at the [?] of Mrs. J. J. Hollywood on Thursday,…

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Met War Nurse Australian Soldier LONDON, April 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 1

Gunner G. T. Foxon, of the Australian Coronation Contingent, arrived at Chichester to visit a girl who nursed him during the war. He, knew her…

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Diggers' Night Maitland Rotary Club Spirit of Anzac

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 6

Speaking at the weekly dinner of the Maltland Roary Club last night on the spirit of Anzac, Colonel H. L. Wheeler, of…

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Returned Soldiers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 7

All ex-service men are invited to take part in the march and commemeration service on Anzac Day on Sunday, at 3 p.m., at West Maitland…

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Anzac Day Sports

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 6

The annual Anzac Day sports will be held on the showground on Monday, and an excellent programme has been prepared. After a church parade and…

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Anzac Day in London

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 1

Six war-blinded Australian ex-servicemen, who are under the care of St. Dunstan's Hospital, will march with the coronation contingent in…

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Anzac Day. Dawn Ceremony

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 6

The returned soldiers, as is their custom, will parade at the Memorial Park at 6 a.m. on Anzac Day (Sunday), when the president of the…

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Anzac Day (To the Editor)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 3

Sir,—Anzac Day and all the days on the calendar are days to mourn for those men and boys who mistakenly laid down…

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