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Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1921

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Anzac Day Service. (To the Editor Western Herald)

The Western Herald · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 2

Sir.—The letter of Father Walch, re the above service, in your paper of the 20th inst requires an answer from all loyal and right thinking citizens of…

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Anzac Day Commemoration. Heroes of Gallipoli

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 April 1921 · page 2

Anzac Day Commemoration services were held in the municipal council grounds this morning, there being a large attendance. The business places…

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Anzac Day Our Immortal Dead

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 26 April 1921 · page 1

Though Dubbo has not yet erected a soldiers' memorial, and though no steps in that direction have yet been taken--in sorrow, and in shame we…

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Soldiers' Memorials. How He Beat the Drought

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 26 April 1921 · page 2

Mr. Br[?]skill one of the biggest farmers and graziers in the south tells about the advantages of about the advantages of being long-sighted…

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Wellington Soldiers' Memorial. a Step Further

The Wellington Times · Thursday 28 April 1921 · page 3

A largely attended meeting was held in the Council Chambers on Monday night in connection with the furtherence of the proposal to erect a memorial…

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Anzac Day in Bourke. School Celebration

The Western Herald · Saturday 30 April 1921 · page 2

On Monday morning last at 11 o'clock at the invitation of the Headmaster of the Public School, a large number of parents and citizens…

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Death of a War Nurse

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 4

On Monday last a young woman, who gave the name of Hammond, arrived at Eglinton, hear Bathurst. She stated she came from Adelaide and put up at…

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Young Woman Badly Wounded

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 6 May 1921 · page 2

Constable James Beasant was an official report says, shot dead on Friday night, and Josie Cantwell was seriously wounded in a public-house in…

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Death of a Wounded Officer

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 6 May 1921 · page 2

Lieutenant Wilson, of the Bedfordshire Regiment, who was seriously wounded in the ambush at Sheenore, near Carrick-on-Shannon, on Friday,…

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A Bogus Soldier

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 6 May 1921 · page 7

At the Gllgandra police court, before Mr. Meeson, P. M. Les[?] Tamby was charged with having falsely req[?] himself to be a returned…

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Soldiers' Memorial

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 10 May 1921 · page 1

Last week the returned soldiers of Dubbo took definite action towards creating the atomosphere that they thought would result in a big public…

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Soldiers' Memorial. a Generous People

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 May 1921 · page 2

A Correspondent, writes.—Some few months ago an appeal was made to the good people of Goulburn for the sum of £2000, for the Goulburn…

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WONGARBON. The War Trophy

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 13 May 1921 · page 1

At last the public of our little village have roused themselves from their state or coma. During the war, Wongarbon's record was second to no town…

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A Bogus Soldier

Western Age · Friday 13 May 1921 · page 3

At the Gilgandra police court, before Mr. Meeson, P.M., Leslle Tamby was chained with having falsely represented himself to be a returned…

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Notes and Comments. Soldiers' Memorial

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 13 May 1921 · page 1

It is to be hoped there will be an attendance worthy of Dubbo at the public meeting to be held in the Town Hall to-night to initiate a movement…

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Local and General Soldiers' Memorial Meeting

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 13 May 1921 · page 2

The people of Dubbo and district are once more reminded of the public meeting to-night at the Town Hall, to take steps to provide a memorial to the…

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Soldiers' Club

The Wellington Times · Monday 16 May 1921 · page 2

A special general meting of the above was held on Saturday night, when there was a good roll up of members. The business was to consider the fianancial…

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Soldiers' Memorial. Great Meeting in Dubbo

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 17 May 1921 · page 3

Dubbo has been somewhat slow in taking definite steps to creet a soldiers' memorial. There has been much comment in the press over this delay,…

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Soldiers' Memorial. Movement Made in Dubbo. Plan of Organisation Adopted

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 17 May 1921 · page 4

Apparently the public of Dubbo only needed to be aroused in a practical way to aw[?]ken them to a sense of their duty[?]to dead soldiers. The apathy…

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War and Stature

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 20 May 1921 · page 6

Will Englishmen suffer in stature during the next few years,as result of war losses, as the French did after the Napoleonic wa[?]? Undoub[?]edly we shall be affected tempotarily…

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