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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

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War Debts Again Move for New Settlement London, May 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 May 1936 · page 11

The early opening of negotiatious with the United States for a new war debts settlement is being urged by-influential people in London. It was…

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Coronation Visit by Mr. Hughes Returned Soldiers' Request

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 May 1936 · page 30

At a meeting of the New South. Wales Returned Soldiers' Coronation contingent committee held at the Legacy Club in Sydney a suggestion was…

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Pilgrimage Battlefields and War Memorials The Coronation Year Tour Under the Auspices of the Melbourne Branch of R.S.S.I.L.A.

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 23 May 1936 · page 1

A Battlefields and War Memorials Pilgrimage has been organised by the Melbourne Sub-Branch of the returned Sailors' and Soldiers' League into…

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War Memorial Hall. Meeting of Committee

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 May 1936 · page 1

The committee of the Hay War Memorial met on Thursday last, when there were present: Messrs J. Houston (president), Squires…

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April and May of War Years

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 27 May 1936 · page 4

April and May [?] ordinarily memorable [?] the A.I.F. dring the [?] 18…

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Fire Is War's Fiercest Weapon

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 26

Fire bombs will be far more dangerous weapons than poison gas in air raids of the future, according to Professor J. Enrique Zanetti, of Columbia…

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Opening of National War Memorial

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 18

A pilgrimage of returned soldiers may be arranged to coincide with the opening of the National War Memorial at Canberra next year. An effort…

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Chief of C.i.b. Wounded Shots by Bandits Attack at Melbourne

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 12

Suffering from four bullet wounds in the neck, wrist, and chest, Superintendent John O'Connell Brophy, who became officer in charge of the…

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Hay War Memorial High School. Headmaster's Annual Report

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 4

The Headmaster, Mr. A. A. Beckett, presented his annual report to the High School Speech Night, on Friday last. References to sport…

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A War Souvenir. Bomb Bursts and Kills a Man. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 2

Edwin Hollingworth (44), a resident of Coogee, was killed instantly, and his daughter, aged 12, and Ernest Dickson (19), were shockingly…

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Australia's Defence Soldier Senator's Plea

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 19

A strong appeal for the strengthening of the defence services was made by Senator Major-General Brand (U.A.P., V.) during the debate on the…

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Sharks Eat 500 Soldiers on Parade Died So That Women and Children Could Escape

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 26

Not a muscle twitched as the men, hungry for life, realised that there was no hope.... THE famous Italian salvage ship…

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Unrest in Palestine. Conflicts With Soldiers. JERUSALEM

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 2

British troops were fired on, near Jenin, and returned the fire, killing two Arabs and wounding four others. Stone throwers at Jaffa attacked a…

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Hay War Memorial High School. Miss Dunnicliff Commended

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 June 1936 · page 2

At no school in the State has the leaching of swimming been more enthusiastically supported than at the Memorial High School. Hay On one…

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Bomb Explodes After 20 Years Soldier Killed by Souvenir

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 June 1936 · page 30

Twenty years after it had been made a bomb which a return soldier had brought back to Australia as a souvenir of the Great War exploded…

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Soldiers' Tour of Battlefields

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 June 1936 · page 4

Under the auspices of the Melbourne branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, a coronation year tour is to be held to the battlefields and…

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Transport War Why Rates Are Cut. Victorian Railways Commissioners Reply to Riverina Halier's Statement. Methods of Operators Criticised

The Independent · Monday 8 June 1936 · page 3

Replying to the statement by a Riverina haulier published in the "Age," of May SO, the Railway Commissioners said it was "absurd to…

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Wonderful Surgery Ex-soldier Given New Face

The Independent · Monday 8 June 1936 · page 3

A returned soldier, who it is believed has undergone more operations than any other ex-soldier, is now staying at Coff's Harbor. He is Mr…

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Far East Situation Russia Will Help China in Event of War Moscow, June 7

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 9 June 1936 · page 3

Official circles express the opinion that in the event of war between China and Japan, Moscow would support any appeal for help by China, as…

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War Debts No British Payment Washington, June 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 June 1936 · page 4

The British Ambassador (Sir Ronald Lindsay) informed the State Department to-day that Great Britain would not make a war debt payment on June…

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