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The wars & local soldiers, 1919

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Land for Soldiers' Settlements. Balranald South District

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 1 January 1919 · page 3

It is proposed to set apart the lands particularised hereunder for soldiers' settlements. Applications for certificates of…

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Italy's War Losses Rome

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 2 January 1919 · page 2

It is officially announced that the number of Italians who were killed or who died on all fronts in the war was 469,000. including 33,317 officers…

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Albury Soldiers' Club Urgent Appeat for Fonds. for Furnishing the New Club

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 2 January 1919 · page 2

Owing to the number of returned soldiers in our midst, who are being added to almost daily, the need for a club room is very pressing. Many of the…

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Queen Helps Wounded W.a.a.c.'s

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 15

London was much interested in the recent arrival there of girls of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. These girls were suffering from wounds and…

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Amazing War Coincidences

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 45

More than once attention has been directed to the curious meetings, and coincidences, often stranger than fiction, brought about by the war…

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Paying Off War Debt

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 23

In the French Chamber of Deputies on Monday the Minister for Finance (M. Klotz) expressed the view that the Allied Powers should consider the question of…

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How War Correspondents Work

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 30

Just like the British army, of whose I deeds he is the chronicler, the British war correspondent has his ancient and honorable traditions. Loyalty to the…

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Claim for War Damages

The Independent · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 3

The French Senate has been officially informed that the war destruction in Northern France is of the estimated value of £2.600,000,000. Coming to details it is…

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Hospital Ship Aground Off Fire Island 2500 Wounded on Board. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 2

A hospital transport, the Northern Pacific, 8256 tons, while inbound with 2500 wounded soldiers from Brest, became stranded in a fog on Fire Island, 40 miles from…

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War After War. Moderation v. Bolshevism. Ferment in Berlin. Extremists Gain Ground. London, December 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 22

Messages from Amsterdam state that extreme unrest continues in Berlin. It lias been reported that the Spartacus troops are masters of the capital. The extremists…

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Australian War Badges Who May Wear Them

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 2

Applications for war badges are frequently made to the Defence department by who are not entitled to receive them. The following official…

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Soldiers' and Sailors' Vote

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 26

What proportion of soldiers and sailors voted is not known, but it is calculated that only one-third, of the soldiers and sailors in the London electorates. recorded…

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Fruit and Vegetable Fund for Soldiers' Dependents

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 25

The has organiser of the above fund begs to acknowledge with grateful thanks a donation of 7/5 from the Hopefield Junior Red cross Circle and the Oaklands…

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Lodge and Soldier

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 45

In the Small Debts Court, Broken Hill, before Mr. W. Le. Brown. S.M., Private Trezise, a returned soldier sued the Pro-testant Alliance Friendly Society, Broken…

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About Soldiers' Orderlies

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 31

In the days of chivalry the knight went forth to the wars accompanied by his squire, who bore his shield and helped him into his armour, and his page, who…

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Our Soldier Boys

The Independent · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 2

Private Cecil Walter Branston, son of Superintendent Branston, arrived in Deniliquin, on furlough, on Christmas Eve. He enlisted in Sydney in 1914, was…

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Returned Soldiers' Resolutions

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 3

The executive of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League, last, night, unanimously protested against the release of the interned…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney. Thursday Evening. the Soldiers' Grievances

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 3

The military authorities will at once commence a thorough investigation into the sodiers' allegations in connection with the steamer…

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1914-15 War Medal No Gallipoli Star. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 2

Colonel T. H. Dodds, Commandant of the A.I.R. Headquarters in London, announces that finality has been reached irregard to the 1914-15 medal, which is to…

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Soldiers Released From Quar­antine. Fremantle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 3

Upwards of 250 soldiers were released from quarantine at Fremantle from the Be[?] to-day. About 40 of them bejong to N.S.W…

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