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Murray · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1919

1,963 stories in Murray's papers · page 25 of 99

Soldiers on the Land the Harden Conference a Fair Deal Wanted

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 21 March 1919 · page 1

The Fanners' Conference hold this week carried the following motions dealing with the settlement of soldiers on the land:—…

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People's Party. of Soldiers and Citizens Captain Carmichael Leader. Sydney

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 21 March 1919 · page 6

A meeting of the Soldiers' and Citizens' Political Federation decided tills afternoon that the body should in future be known as the Peoples'…

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Lake Urana. Available for Soldier Settlement. 118,000 Acres Thrown Open

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 21 March 1919 · page 6

The Hon. R. T. Ball M.L.A., Minister for P[?] Works and Rail ways, advises us that he has received an intimation from. the…

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Laird for Soldiers

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 21 March 1919 · page 5

The Hon. R. T. Ball, Minister for Works and member for the district, advises us that he has received an intimation from the…

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Soldiers Welcomed Home. Sergeant Murray, M.M., and Gunner Wybrowcliff Honored

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 21 March 1919 · page 5

On Friday night last the Urana Literary Institit was crowded to welcome home Sergeant J Murray, M.M.. and Gunner J…

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Local Soldiers Gain Distinction. Sergeant H. Runn, D.c.m

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 March 1919 · page 2

Sergeant H. Runn, son of Mrs. H. Runn, of West Hay, has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Sergeant Runn, D.C.M., enlisted in…

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Original Correspondence the Town Clock and Soldiers' Memorial. (To the Editor.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 March 1919 · page 3

Sir,--In your issue of Tuesday last, 18th inst., I notice a letter from "A Hero's Mother," saying the most suitable place for Mr. Nixon's gift of a…

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A Soldier's Record

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 March 1919 · page 2

Daring the week Private E. Chadwick, who enlisted from this district two years ago, paid a visit to the town. Prior to enlisting, Private Chadwick…

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Amelioration of Lot of Soldiers Committee Spends £72,000. SYDNEY

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 22 March 1919 · page 2

The total expenditure of the New South Wales Amelioration Committee to date is £71,922, which represents 163,850 individual payments. Since the…

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Repatriation Minister Counted Out Do Soldiers Believe in Him? Perth

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 22 March 1919 · page 4

Senator Millen, Minister for Repatriaten, was counted out by an unruly knot of returned soldiers at Perth last night. The meeting had been called to hear…

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Spartacus Germany Enormity of the War Ignored People Will Not Realise It. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 March 1919 · page 3

Mr. F. Sefton Delmer, formerly of Sydney, who at the outbreak of the war was Professor of English at the Berlin University, and has been acting as a…

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Time-payment Houses for Soldiers £600 House for 13/7 Weekly. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 March 1919 · page 2

A schema for building houses for returned soldiers is almost ready for launching by the Federal Government Mr. F. Sykes, secretary of the Returned Soldiers and…

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Correspondence a Modest Thurgoona Soldier. (To the Editor)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 March 1919 · page 2

Sir,—At a well attended committee meeting our secretary, Mr. E. Fraunfelder, was instructed to write to Private Walsh to arrange for a welcome home to…

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Soldier's Allotment Money Infant's Claim Succeeds

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 March 1919 · page 3

In the Wangaratta Court, Esther Longmore, infant, by her next friend, C. H. Longmore, of Beechworth, sued Jessie May Wilkinson. of Rutherglen, for the…

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Correspondence Solder Declines Welcome Home. (To the Editor)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 4

Sir,—With your permission I would like to make an explanation through your paper why I refused a welcome home from one body of people at Thurgoona…

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War Badges for Mothers, Etc

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 3

Approval has been given for the issue of a badge to the wife or mother or nearest female relative of all soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force and…

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Hay War Workers' League Monthly Meeting

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the above was held at the Athenaeum on Thursday, March 13th. There were present: Mesdames Biden (presiding), O'Brien,…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney. Monday Evening the Next War Loan

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 3

It is likely that the next War Loan will be compulsory, if the Commonwealth Government finds it necessary to apply compulsion…

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Returned Maori Soldiers Go on the Rampage. Wellington

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 3

Three hundred returned Maori soldiers broke into a store at Raratonga and damaged or removed goods valued at £1000. A police sergeant quelled the disturbance…

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Demobilisation of Australians Muddles of Officials. While Soldiers Whit. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 2

Since my last cable on the shipping position evidence has come form a dozen sources giving further confirmation of the Statement that the Australian…

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