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Mid North Coast · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1921

281 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 11 of 15

War Horrors

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 July 1921 · page 3

Plans for making war more frightful which are new coming within the purview of experts at the Air Ministry include that for an air-ram…

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The War Criminals

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1921 · page 2

The Leipzig trials of war criminal continue, and the results are just what might have been expected. Men charged with the most…

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Soldiers and Sport

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 20 July 1921 · page 2

On Monday, July 25th, a Public Meeting will be held to ask the public of Taree and district to enthuse, wake up, and assist' the military and cadet forces in organising sports meetings for the benefit of their sons and incidentally their town and district…

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Blinded Soldiers Tea Co

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 20 July 1921 · page 4

A number of men, who had been blinded in the late war (hence the name of the combination) has formed a tea company in Sydney, for trading…

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Australian War Bill. 440 Millions. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 22 July 1921 · page 5

Sir Joseph Cook informed Mr. Ryan that the Australian war bill is 440 millions…

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German War Criminals

The Northern Champion · Saturday 23 July 1921 · page 6

The first of the German war criminals prosecuted at leipzig was Karl Helnen, a non-commissioner officer, who was found guilty on…

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War Habits Disappearing

The Northern Champion · Saturday 23 July 1921 · page 8

The stranger in our midst who a also a critic, is pleasantly impressed by the way in which we have thrown of our war habits (says the London…

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End of the War

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1921 · page 2

The Government proposed to fix the date of the termination of the war as August 4th, 1921. The cabinet is at present consulting…

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War Officially Ending

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 27 July 1921 · page 2

The Government proposes to fix August 4, 1921, as the official date for the termination of the war. Cabinet is consulting the law officers of…

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Soldier Settlements

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 27 July 1921 · page 2

A conference of delegates from the various soldier settlement met in Sydney on Saturday, and discussed methods of improving…

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Empire War Memorial

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 29 July 1921 · page 4

A scheme is on foot for the formation of women's committees throughout the Empire with the object of raising £2,000,000 where…

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The Soldiers Club

Macleay Argus · Friday 29 July 1921 · page 2

Sir,--Be good enough to grant sufficient space in your paper to draw attention to the Soldiers' Club, Sydney. This useful and popular rendezvous is…

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The War's Result

The Northern Champion · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 8

Germany has been banged in her shipping industry as her shipping before the war in 1914 was 5,098,000 tons, whilst to-day it numbers 654,000…

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Australia's War Bill

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 3

THE Acting-Prime Minister, answer a question by Mr. Ryan, in the House of Representatives on Thursday, said that Australia's expenditure for war…

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Hastings District Returned Soldiers' Club

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 4

The R.S. & S.I. League have secured a lease of the hall and card room from the School of Arts, Wauchope, and intend to furnish the hall as an…

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Soldiers Farms

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 3 August 1921 · page 3

Re the delay in the payment for the soldiers farms Mr. R. A. Price, M.L.A. has been advised as follows from the Department of Repatriation…

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War Anniversary. Earl Haig's Message. London

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 5

Earl Haig, on the seventh anniversary of the war, appeals to the nation not to forget the debt to the men who stood between it and disaster. Over a…

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War Prisoners' Secret

The Northern Champion · Saturday 6 August 1921 · page 8

The Grenadiors lost one of the most popular officers in the Army by the death of Major Robin Grey, D.S.O. who died in a nursing hotels…

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Ellalong Soldiers

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1921 · page 1

On Saturday last, Hon Walter Bennett, M.L.A., was present at the unveiling ceremony of a memorial to Ellalong soldiers…

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Soldiers' Medals

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 10 August 1921 · page 2

A Meeting for the purpose of [?]alising the above matter, the money for which was colluded a considerable time ago was held in…

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