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The wars & local soldiers, 1916

3,272 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 164

Women Fataily Shot. Another Wounded, Constable [?]

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 3

Mrs. [?] (84), who [?]…

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Fiendish Sniper. German, Murders Our Wounded

Guyra Argus · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 6

A British soldier, recently returned borne wounded, tells an interesting story of the ingenuity of the German s[?]pere. This particular sniper, whom…

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War Notes

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 5

The Australians serving in France number 3000 The total New Zealand casualties at Gallipoli were 8108…

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War Cards Majority Refuse to Enlist German Question

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 6

The war [?] cards sent out by the Prime Minister to the men of Australia between the [?] and 45 are now being received and [?]…

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The Horrors of War

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 2

Writing to his sister, Mrs, Jno. Watkins, Sorgeant F. Wilcox, of [?] marra, conveys a vivid impression o: life at the front. The sergeant was…

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German's Diary of War. [?] BRUTALITY

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 3

PRIVATE'S LONGING FOR PEACE. Terrible revelation of the brutality to [?] German Soldiers are [?] by their officers are contained…

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The War. Last Hours on Gallipoli. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 6

General Munro reports that the Turks tried a heavy attack on Halles on the 7th. After four hours intense firing in the afternoon they [?]…

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How the War Will End. a Startling Disclosure

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 4

The following is from the "Motor in Australia," being extracts from a [?] received by a Sydney journalist [?] his son with the Flying Corps…

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Among Prominent People, Papers and Politicians Retain War Taxes

Guyra Argus · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 3

"It Great Britain is wise she will retain her war taxes, burdensome though they be. She will establish a high sinking fund on her debt, and the will invest…

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The War. King Edward Vii. Disaster. Survivor's Story. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 5

A surviver of the King Edward VII,--a British battleship of 16,850 tons. which was blown up by a mine-says the disaster occurred on Thursday at…

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"Best Joke of the War," British Blockade of Germany. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 5

The "Dally Mall's" commissioner, who visited Scandinavia declares that German traders consider, the British [?] the best [?] of the war…

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Soldier's Death

Guyra Argus · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 2

The death occurred at Auburn, Sydney, on Saturday morning of Private David Whan, of Armidale, at the age of 23 years. Deceased, while…

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50 Hours With Dying Soldier

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1916 · page 8

"Every man' was a hero." The writer is the Rev. C. L. Perry, of Newport (Mon.), Free Church chaplain, who makes reference to the great…

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More Wounded Soldiers

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 4

Adelaide, Thursday.—Another hospital ship, with 450 sick and wounded Australians on board, reached Adelaide yesterday…

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Wounded Soldiery' Social

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 2

A very pleasant and successful social eventuated at Dumaresq on Boxing night in aid of the Australian Wounded Soldiers' Fund. The promoters…

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Anzac Slang

The Inverell Times · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 6

The Australians are not very rich a stang, writes a Transport Officer, from Gallipoli to a London paper, so far as I have heard, but the following…

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War Items

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 10

Private F. Melvaine, of Uralla, writing from King George Hospital, London, to his father, under date of November 17th, says: "We were out…

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