Anzac Day at Muswellbrook Church Parade and Service. Rain Interferes With Arrangements
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 1
Muswellbrook's Anzac Day ceremonies yesterday lost none of their forvor by reason of the fact that most of the returned soldiers had left for Sydney to take part in the memorable march in which over 40,000 men marched…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chinese Hammering at Japanese Forces Invaders Surprised by Large Scale Attacks. One Hundred Thousand More Soldiers Required. Shanghai
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 2
After hurling their weakened divisions against the Chinese on lines over a 100-mile front for 96 hours, the Japanese were surprised in the Yihsian and Lingyi areas, when 300 Chinese divisions were launched against them. The Japanese were driven off after each side had sustained 15,000 casualties…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 5
A Requiem Eucharist was celebrated in St. Matthias' Church of England on Monday morning at 11 a.m. in honour of fallen soldiers…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 5
A large congregation was present on Sunday afternoon in the Presbyterian Church, Largs, when Rev. Don aid Finalayson presided at the…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 2
Two elderly returned soldiers, one of them from Newcastle, collapsed in the Anzac march in Sydney on Monday and died…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 6
In addition to the two films at the palace and Prince's Theatres to-morrow (Saturday) night, a gazette featuring the Anzac Day march in Sydney…
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The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 2
(These two pictures were arranged to arrive in Scone on Tuesday morning for publication in our last issue, but they were accidentally overcarried and did not arrive here until Tuesday afternoon—too late for publication.)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Anzac Night Cessnock Rotary Club
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 4
The weekly dinner of the Cessnook Rotary Club last evening took the inform of an Anzac night A number of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MORPETH Anzac Day Service at the Monument
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 3
Anzac Bay services were carried out with the usual impressiveness in Morpeth. Members of the Junior Red Cross, the boys from…
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The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 2
Barcelona reports state that General Franco has now realised that his attempt to conquer Catalonia has failed. He has abandoned Barcelona as an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anzac Address Dr. Soiling's Clever Sketch Cessnock Rotary Cessnock
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 6
Dr. F. P. M. Soiling, past president of the Maitland Rotary Club, was the speaker at the weekly dinner of the Cessnock Rotary Club last night…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 2
Described as the greatest Anzac Day march Australia has ever seen, more than 40,000 bemedalled Diggers marched through the streets on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Distinguished War Leader Dead Sir Talbot Hobbs
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 8
The death is reported of Lieutenant-General Sir Talbot Hobbs, who commanded the 5th Division of the A.I.F. from 1916 to 1918. He was'…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"China will Win War" German Interests Warn Berlin
Singleton Argus · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 1
Mr Vernon Bartiett, writing in the London "News Chronicle," states that doubts about Japan are fast developing in the Far East. Important German interests there have sent a memorandum to the German Government pointing out the damage being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Merriwa and District News (Reprinted from the Merriwa and Cassillis "News. ") National Day of Remembrance Anzac Day. Twenty-third Anniversary Fittingly Commemorated
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 7
Merriwa public's pride and respect for the dead and admiration for those soldiers privileged to return does not wane as the years roll by, but rather it tends to increase with the passage of time, as evidenced by the commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of Anzac Day on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Passing of Returned Soldier. Mr. Henry Nagle. Denman
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 3
Owing to what appears to be inaccuracies in reports concerning the death of a returned soldier during the Anzac march, some doubt exists…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 10
Major Louis Lespinasse, the only man who knew the identity of France's Unknown Soldier, has died. Now the secret is sealed forever of…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 3
At last Tuesday night's meeting of the Kearsley Shire Council, Cr. W. Bailey mentioned that the returned soldiers who…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 April 1938 · page 5
Let us thing of Sir Ralph Abercromby. He was born in Scotland in 1734, and he shares with Sir John Moore the honour of helping to restore discipline and military glory to the British army…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Social Life in Sydney Gaieties Continue for the Month of April—Lady Wakehurst Conducts Anzac Service—Artistic Home in Sutherland Avenue—Mrs. Toby Browne Honoured—Country Folks Engaged—American Hockey Players—Will the Wish Come True—Delightful Cocktail Party—Guest at Government House—Society Wedding
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 April 1938 · page 8
ALTHOUGH this is almost the end of the merry month of April, we are accepting invitations, and…
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