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Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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Spanish War. London

The Western Herald · Friday 2 July 1937 · page 5

The Spanish rebels captured the important iron exporting port of Castro Urdiates…

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War Service Homes. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 2 July 1937 · page 5

According to a report issued by the Minister in charge of War Service Homes (J. A. J. Hunter), more than a quarter if the…

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Membership Drive Returned Soldiers’ League

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 8 July 1937 · page 10

A State wide membership drive is being effected by the Returned S. and S.I. League, and all country branches have been asked to…

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Diggers Meet Resolutions Submitted. for Soldier Settlers’ Conference

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 8 July 1937 · page 1

Resolutions for the forthcoming Soldier Settlers’ Conference were discussed at the monthly meeting of the…

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War Service Homes Interesting Figures

The Wellington Times · Thursday 15 July 1937 · page 18

More than a quarter of the returned soldiers who were provided with homes under the War Service Homes Act now…

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Soldiers’ Homes

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 15 July 1937 · page 2

More than a quarter of the returned soldiers who were provided with homes under the War Service Homes Act now own them,…

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Bomb Explodes Forgotten War Souvenir Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 19 July 1937 · page 1

Eight persons had remarkable escapes from death at Rockdale yesterday when a Mills bomb, a forgotten war…

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Soldiers' Conference

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 22 July 1937 · page 5

Messrs. E. Squirrell and Jim Wil son represented the Gilgandra subbranch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. at the annual Western Conference of the…

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International the Spanish War. London

The Western Herald · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 1

Twenty-five Government sympathisers were executed on charges of destroying flags displayed in honor of the anniversary of…

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Koonabarabran Kangaroo Stalkers on the War Path Again

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 29 July 1937 · page 6

The Koonabarabran Kangaroo Stalkers have been on the war path again, and on Wednesday of last week another successful shoot was…

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War Declared on Grasshoppers Intensive Campaign To Be Launched Co-operation of All Landholders Sought Public Meeting To Be Held

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 29 July 1937 · page 4

Preparations are already in hand for perhaps the most intensive campaign ever launched against grasshoppers in this State. All landholders and persons likely to be affected by…

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Union War Policy Disowned by A.L.P.

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 4

The secretary of the A.L.P., Mr, J. Graves, said recently that Labor would have nothing to do with the war policy decided upon…

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Trangie Returned Soldiers Sound Position of Local Subbranch. strong Executive Elected

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 1

The Diggers of the Trangie Subbranch of the Returned Soldiers and Soldiers and Imperial League of Australia held their annual general meeting at…

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War Memorial at Nyngan

The Western Herald · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 4

Last week a war memorial was unveiled at Nyngan. The Memorial is of unpolished Bathurst granite, with a polished face…

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Spanish War. London

The Western Herald · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 5

A communique was issued today denying the report that General Franco's Government has been recognised by Britain…

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War Memorial Literary Institute Publicity Bureau

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 12 August 1937 · page 1

Subscribers and intending subscribers of the Gilgandra War Memorial Literary Institute will be interested in an innovation which should…

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Wholesale Slaughter Nearly As Bad As War Traffic Accidents

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 12 August 1937 · page 8

A total of 1345 people were killed and 22,131 injured in Australia in 1936. There were 47,000 traffic accidents…

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Down on Communism Breeder of Class War Violence and Bloodshed

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 August 1937 · page 11

Recently we published an address by Father Curran, Parish Priest of Dunedoo, and one time of Wellington, dealing with the…

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Michael O'Leary, V.C. a Commissionaire. Famous War Hero. LONDON, July 17

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Thursday 12 August 1937 · page 5

Michael O'Leary, one of the most famous V.C.'s of the war is now acting as commissionaire at the front door of a well-known London…

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Unscrupulous Bloodsuckers Heading for Another War Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 16 August 1937 · page 1

Rev. J. Robertson, preaching at the Baptist Church, declared that combines and individuals who made themselves rich…

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