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Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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Up-to-date "Bobby" Flys with Wounded Man. Brings Assailant By Aeroplane PERTH

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 1
Also in Western Age

Sergeant West, of Carnarvon, West Australia, upon hearing that a man named Richard Allender had been attacked by an Italian ninety miles…

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Soldiers Pleased. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 12

The officials of the Returned Soldiers' League are highly elated at the action of Parliament in approving of the Hyde Park site for the Anzac…

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Official History of the War

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 2

The third volume of the Official History of the War, dealing with France 1910. Is about to he published. Difficult has been found in ascertaining…

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Wool and the War

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 7

THE consistent utterances of authorities in some countries abroad convey the impression that wool is never cheap enough. But actions…

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Posed As a Man Woman's Remarkable Career Married An Australian Served in War London

Western Age · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 3
Also in Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent

The arrest of "Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Bligh Barker," a restuarant reception clerk at the Reseat Palace…

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T. B. Sailors and Soldiers

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 4

FOR the information of T. B. Sailors and Soldiers, who have not yet joined the T. B. Sailors and Soldiers' Association of N.S.W., we…

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Bread War. Newcastle

The Wellington Times · Monday 11 March 1929 · page 2

Twenty-seven suburban baker shops in the Newcastle district have decided, as from to-day, to sell bread for fourpence half penny per 2lb…

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Commercial Wool and the War Economic Results

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 11 March 1929 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:-- The consistent utterances of authorities in some countries abroad convey the impression that wool is never…

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Returned Men's Board. Said to Cost £30,000. Canberra

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 1

It is stated unofficially that the creation of an Appeal and Assessment Board for returned soldiers will involve an extra expenditure of £30,000 a year…

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War Preparations. Engineers at Newcastle. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 1

At the Engineers' Conference at Newcastle plans were disclosed for mobilising the scientific brains of Australia if war should break out. The chief…

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Latest Telegrams. Aboriginal Civil War. Muster of Territory Police. Missionary Takes a Hand. Darwin

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 1

The police in the Northern Territory have been mustered to deal with a marauding expedition of wild aborigines in the…

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Welcome Home. and Presentation to Mr. and Mrs. Ken. Gainsford

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1929 · page 4

When Mr. Ken Gainsford was married in Sydney. recently, his friend in this district decided to give the happy couple a welcome home…

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Wounded by Stray Bullets Melbourne

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 2

Bullets coming from the direction of some bushes, seriously wounded three people at Fern Tree Gully. Those injured were, Percival Coffey…

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How War Begins

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 6

A small boy asked his father how wars began. "Well," said his father, "suppose that England quarrelled with France--"…

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The Returned Soldiers' League and Mr. Roland Green, M.P. Melbourne

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 2

Mr. G. J. Dyett, Federal President of the Returned Soldiers' League, says he regrets that, under cover of Parliamentiary privilege, Mr. Roland…

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Returned Soldiers' League. Mr. G. Christie New President

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 5

At a largely attended meeting of the Gligandra [?]ned, So[?]ers' League, held on Saturday last. the credit balance of the League was…

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A Great Soldier Passes. Death of Marshal Foch

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 22 March 1929 · page 6

From Paris the death is announced of Marshal Foch, the great soldier who towards the end of the Great War was, by consent of all the Allied nations…

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Vale Foch a Soldier and a Man Whose Name Will Ever Dwell He Died As He Lived

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 25 March 1929 · page 3

As mentioned in our telegrams an Friday, Marshal Foch, the victorious generalissimo of the Allied armies in the world war, is dead…

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