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Fires & bushfires, 1915

320 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 16

Germans Fire on Rescuers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 May 1915 · page 2

Thirty seven members of the crew of the Recruit perished. The submarine fired a torpedo at the trawler Daisy while the latter was engaged in rese[?] work…

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Australians Under Fire The Troops in the Dardanelles. General Battle Expected Shortly. SYDNEY, Friday night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 4 May 1915 · page 1

It is officially stated that the troops which had the most serious collision with the Turks, to date, are Colonel McLagan's Third Brigade,…

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Trawler Fires on Torpedo Boat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 May 1915 · page 22

The trawler Barbados brought to Yarmouth the Colombia's survivor and a German bluejacket who bad fallen overboard. Seventeen of the Colombians crew…

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Germans Fire on Wounded

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 May 1915 · page 25

When retiring from Piulken during the Yser canal fighting last week, the Germans, who had made an unsuccessful charge, turned their machine guns upon the British…

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Dodges for Drawing the Enemy's Fire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 May 1915 · page 41

A corporal in the 1st Dragoons writing home recently told how in a village outside Armentieres the British placed in position a number of dummy soldiers all nicely…

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Australians in Action Their Baptism of Fire. Irresistible Dash. "Nothing Stopped Us." LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 7 May 1915 · page 2

The arst detailed account of the parti[?]pation of the Australasian forces at the Dardanelles has been received from Reuter's correspondent at Cairo. It shows…

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Landing in Gallipoli. Australasians' Dashing Start. Galling Turkish Fire. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 8 May 1915 · page 2

The Prime Minister (Mr. Acquith), in the House of Commons on Thursday detailed the landing of the Allied expedition at the Dardanelles…

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Allies in Action. the Landing. Brilliant Australians. Face Point Blank Fire

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 11 May 1915 · page 4

Replying to a question by Mr. Bouar Law in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, detailed the landing of troops in the Dardanelles…

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Shell Fire. a Terrifying Tumult

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 May 1915 · page 3

It is impossible to exaggerate the monstrous horror of the shell fire, writes Mr. Philip Gibbs in the "Daily Chion[?]e[?]e."…

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Western War Theatre Terrific Fight for Hilltop. Magnificent Tenacity of French in Face of Murderous Fire. Victory After Three Days' Struggle. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 May 1915 · page 2

A communique issued in Paris states that the fighting in Northern France had developed into a ceuscless attack sine Thursday. The French have carried…

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England Visited by Zeppelins. Fires Caused at Ramsgate

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 May 1915 · page 2

A Zeppelin dropped incendiary bombs on Ramsgate a watering place of Kent in the south-east of the isle of Thanet, 72 miles out by south of London, Several…

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Furious Fighting in Gallipoli Battleships and Artillery Batter with Shells. Desperate Attacks with Infantry In Withering Hail of Machine Gun Fire Extreme Bravery of Turks Eighteenth Casualty List. 36 Deaths Reported, 200 Wounded. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 20 May 1915 · page 2

This morning the eighteenth casualty last in connection with the operation of the Australian troops in the Dardanclles gives a total of 239 names, One officer…

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Steamer's Baptism of Fire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 32

Despite that German warships had sent shells crashing into her hull, making her a complete wreck aft, the steamer Sagama River, which arrived at Sydney on Friday…

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The Black Watch Under Fire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 21

The Black Watch led the latent success to the northward of La Basse. The men were compelled to cut barbed-wire under a terrible enfilading machine-gun fire, but…

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Assistance of Fleet. Fire directed by Aeroplanes

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 May 1915 · page 2

The Allies’ fleet greatly assisted the infantry in the successful operations The warships’ fire was directed by aeroplanes…

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Fighting in Galicia. Terrific Torrent of Shell Fire Russians Take 6000 Prisoners

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 2

The correspondent of "The Times" at Ivangorood states that when the Russians learned the German movement in Galicia, they strengthened their reserve lines keep…

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Gigantic Struggle in Galicia Hurricanes of Artillery Fire Desperate Fighting on the San British Battleship Sunk by Submarine Turks in Gallipoli Retreating Twenty-Fourth CasualtyList 241 NAMES 21 Deaths. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 2

Names of 15 officers and 226 men are shown in the twenty-fourth list of Australain casualties, issued to-day. Of the officers eleven have been wounded, one…

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Australian Fleet Ready to Open Fire. Every Man Eager for Attack, MELBOURNE

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 May 1915 · page 5

"Thing! me pretty hot round this quarter," said an officer with the Australian fleet, in the course of a letter to a friend in Melbourne. "We are always ready to…

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Violent Attacks by Allies. German Line Pierced and Weakened Between Ypres and Dixmude. Germans Retreating on the San. Terrific Fire of Italian Guns. Austrian Forts Battered to Pieces. Australian Casualties. Twentv-ninth List. 50 Killed in Action. Melbourne. Tuesday Night

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 2 June 1915 · page 2

The twenty-ninth casualty list, issued to-night, contains 341 names, including 59 killed in action and others who died of wounds and sickness…

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Danger From Own Fire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 June 1915 · page 20

The inquest into the deaths of the victims of the Zeppelin raid on Southend show that one woman was killed by an anti-air-craft shell as it fell after being fired at the…

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