Back to Freedom. War Prisoners Escape. London
Two Australian soldiers, named Holmes and H. L. Thomas, who escaped from a prison camp at Fredericksfeld, Germany, have reached…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1917
262 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers · page 13 of 14
A Soldier's Diary
The following diary of a solidier's life at the front was written by a soldier to his mother from France on the 17th March,…
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Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: The enemy delivered nine separate attacks in the neighbourhood of Maspieres. We…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parcel from Cooma. Soldier's Appreciation
Mrs. A. E. Kelly of Summer Hill. Berridale has forwarded a letter to the Cooma branch Red cross Society from her son…
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Field Marshal Haig report: A more serious enemy attack oc?urred in consderaible force at La Vacquerie but was repulsed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Soldier's Diary. Continued from last week
"For the next two nights I was out on the same work, and I can assure you it played up somewhat on my nerves. Then…
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A Washington message Says: Office reports from [?] admit that the Austr[?] has drive a wedge between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Savings Group. Cooma Branch Formed
On Tuesday last a meeting will hold in the Methodist Church Cooma, to discuss the advisability of forming a War Savings…
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A Roumanian official message announces that the Roumanians have decided to accept an armistice and to uspend hostilities on…
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The Admiralty announced: Our aircraft bombed Bruges docks on Tuesday night. One of our machines is missing. We downed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Women Must Consider What War as Waged by Germany Means
I. Women have been outraged and killed (Belgian invasion); II. Children have been wantenly murdered (air raids on England); III. Women and children have been drowned at sea ("Lusitania");…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Razors for Invalid Soldiers
The Red Cross Representatives working in No, 4 General Hospital, Randwick, are constantly being asked for razors by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Mother's Answer to "A Common Soldier."
Mrs. Jos. Brill, of Craigie, recently lost one of her sons (Pte. Jim Brill) in the firing line in France. Her younger son, Sgt. Leslie Brill, has…
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Filed Marshal Haig reports: We completely repulsed a local attack last evening eastward of Bullecourt successfully raided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A War Indemnity
MM. Smith : I have just had a terrible qurrel with my husband. MRS. BROWN: Well, I don't see what there in that to make you look so happy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What She War
HACKET (furiously) : Do you know I've marriage a young woman through a matrimon agency which which claimed her to be a countess whereas I find she is only a cook…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War London
Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty,, announced in the House of Commons that one British and five neutral merchant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dalgety School Assists. War Chest Fund
A correspondent writes: On 7th December the pupils of the Dalgety Public School gave an entertainment in aid of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gifts for Soldiers Children
The Cooma Voluntary Aid Detachment set apart the afternoon of Wednesday of last week for the receipt of Christmas…
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A Paris report says artillerying occured in various places including the Thur Doller [?] in Upper Alsace…
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