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The wars & local soldiers, 1938

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Anzac Day

The Uralla Times · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 1

As in previous years, the management of the Picture Co. is pleased to extend a very cordial invitation to returned sailors and soldiers and all…

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Local and Personal a Combined Anzac Service

Guyra Argus · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 2

will be held in the Arcadia Theatre, Guyra, on MONDAY, APRIL 25, at 11 a.m. A retiring collection will be devoted to the Senior Red Cross. The…

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Anzac Day the Programme For Observance in Glen Innes

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 5

The following is the official programme for the local observance of Anyac Day. 10.O Assembly…

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Anzac Day 23rd. Anniversary Observance in Glen Innes The Community's Obligation

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 4

Mr. Gerald Digby, President of the R.S. and S.I.L.A., Glen Innes Sub-ranch, writes to the editor:—The observation of Australia's…

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2AD on Anzac Day

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 4

On Monday next, April 25, Anzac Day, Station 2AD will open at 11 o'clock to take a special Anzac Service from the Capitol…

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Anzac Day New Zealand Contingent Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 1

The motorship Awatea, which arrived in Sydney to-day, brought about 50 returned men, accompanied by their wives and families. The liners…

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Anzac Parade Arrival of New Zealand Men SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 1

The motor ship Award which arrested at Sydney to-day [?]ght about of New Zealand returned men accompanied by their waves and families…

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Chinese Lose Lingyi Desperate Street Fighting Troops Reinforced Against Yihseen Japanese Soldiers Outnumbered SHANGHAI

The Inverell Times · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 1

THE CHINESE ADMIT THE LOSS OF ICHOWFU, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS LINGYI, AFTER DAYS OF DESPERATE STREET FIGHTING, BUT THEY DECLARE THAT THE ABANDONMENT OF THE CITY HAS STRATEGIC ADVANTAGES…

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Anzac

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 23 April 1938 · page 4

On Monday will be observed the twenty-third anniversary of Anzac Day, a day sacred in the annals of this young nation, as that on which the young men of this continent, fighting side by side with men of the sister dominion,…

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33rd. Battalion Notes Anzac Day

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 23 April 1938 · page 4

A parade of the local detachment will fall in at the Drill Hall at 9 a.m. to receive issue of rifles and equipment. Dress is breeches and hat…

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Do We Forget ? Anzac's Glorious Victory "Meandering Mike" writes:—

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 23 April 1938 · page 6

Anzac Day! What memories are revived by those two words words pregnant with dark significances for thousands throughout the length and…

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Anzac Stirring Scenes When N.Z. Diggers Arrive Record March on Monday Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 23 April 1938 · page 1

There were stirring scenes on the harbor and in the city streets this morning when 1300 Mew Zealander returned soldiers arrived…

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Time Brings Changes Anzac Commemoration "War Not God's Will" Service in Capitol Theatre

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 4

"I think that those of us whose minds can go back over the past twenty years will agree that since the first Anzac…

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[?]s Anzac March of Returned Soldiers Large Gathering at Public Service Anzac Address by Rev. C. Moore. Facing the Future in the Cause of Peace To-day Inverell Worthily Took Its Place in the National Commemoration of Anzac Day

The Inverell Times · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 4

There was a special march of returned soldiers, the laying of wreaths at the monument and a combined public service in the Capitol Theatre, whilst numbers of men from the town and district were also present in the long line of returned…

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Invite German Soldiers to Anzac Services Better International Understanding Australians Bear No Malice SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 1

SPEAKING AT THE UNITED ANZAC DAY SERVICE, REV. D. P. MACDONALD, OF MOSMAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SUGGESTED THAT GERMAN EX-SOLDIERS SHOULD BE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN DIGGER RE-UNIONS…

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War Veterans' Home

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 2

Efforts are being made by the R.S. & S.I.L.A., the legacy Club of Sydney, and citizens of the Community to raise funds for the erection…

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The Ideal of Anzac and the Spirit of Sacrifice

The Inverell Times · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 4

Once more the anniversary occurs of that great day when Australia was baptised in blood and sacrifice as a nation worthy of the best attributes of its forbears. The opportunity came unsought and was accepted most freely for the flower of our youth to show that…

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Spanish War Division Annihilated LONDON

The Inverell Times · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 1

Spanish Loyal[?] are entrenched in the Tremp se[?] claim to have trapped two rebel ba[?]ons in the Rio Noguer valley where eighty…

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Japan Will Lose War Miracle in China Building Great Army Japanese Troops Weary American Airman Detained LONDON

The Inverell Times · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 1

ADDRESSING A MEETING AT THE GUILD HALL IN AID OF CHINA, AT WHICH £100 WAS COLLECTED, A WELL-KNOWN NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT, VERNON BARTLETT, SAID HE WAS CONVINCED THAT JAPAN WOULD LOSE…

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German Soldiers For Diggers' Reunions Clergyman's Suggestion Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 1

Speaking at a United Anzac Day service, the Rev. D. P. Macdonald, of Mosman Presbyterian Church, suggested that German ex-soldiers…

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