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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1918

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Death of Lord Forrest

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 September 1918 · page 2

The Federal Government received intimation on Wednesday of the death of the Right Honorable Lord Forrest, P.C., G.C.M.G., while on board a steamer off…

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Military Funeral

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 September 1918 · page 2

Last Wednesday afternoon the rare spectacle of a military funeral was witnessed in Queanbeyan. The cortege was a long…

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Obituary

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1918 · page 2

Another very old and respected resident of Araluen in the person of Mrs. Hourigan, senr., crossed the Jordan on Friday night last…

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Death of a Returned Soldier

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 September 1918 · page 2

On Friday last Mr. Coroner Gale received a notification through the police of the death that morning at Bungendore of John Edward Haydon, aged 42 years. The…

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Death of Mr. James Nugent

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 September 1918 · page 2

A wire was received yesterday to the effect that early that morning Mr. James W. Nugent had died of pneumonia at his residence,…

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Death of Mayor of Goulburn

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 September 1918 · page 2

Alderman Harold O'Brien, Mayor of Goulburn, a well-known solicitor, and a very highly-esteemed citizen, died at his late residence, "Locksley,"…

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Local and General News OBITUARY

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 September 1918 · page 2

The death is announced of Mr. William Steele, J.P., late of Budawang, which took place at his residence at Bankstown on…

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Death of Pioneer Parson

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1918 · page 2

The death occurred on Saturday in the Coast Hospital of the Rev. Copland King, one of the pioneer Anglican missionaries of Papua…

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Obituary. Edmund Rolfe, Sen

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 October 1918 · page 2

News reached Queanbeyan this morning that Mr. Edmund Rolfe, formerly of Gold Creek, Gininderra, passed away at Merrylands, near Sydney, last night…

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Obituary

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 October 1918 · page 4

After a long and exceedingly useful and exemplary life of four score years, the mortal remains of Mrs. Rosanna McAlister were laid at rest beside her only…

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Death of Dr. Richardson, M.R.C.S.

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 October 1918 · page 2

The news that was wired to Queanbeyan yesterday morning of the fatal termination of the illness which a short time back laid aside…

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Obituary

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 October 1918 · page 2

The old hands are gradually passing way and giving place to a new generation. King Death's latest victim is Mr. Felix…

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Death of Mr. Miller M.L.A.

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 October 1918 · page 2

Mr. G.T.C. Miller, M.L.A. for Monaro, died at his residence at Marrickville on Sunday, after an illness extending over several weeks. The late Mr. Miller was…

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Death of Mr. G. T. C. Miller, M.L.A.

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 October 1918 · page 3

The sad news was received in town yesterday morning of the death the previous afternoon of Mr. G. T. C. Miller, member for…

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The Late Mr. Miller, M.L.A.

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday night Mr. Holman, in moving, "That this House places on record its sense of the loss sustained by the death of Mr. G. T…

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The Late Mr. Gus. Miller

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1918 · page 3

Sydney "Worker" says :- 'Gus, Miller, Labor member for Monaro in the N.S.W. Assembly, passed out in Sydney last Sunday, after…

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Obituary. Mrs. Margaret Harris Ætat 78

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 October 1918 · page 2

Nearly as old a resident of this district as Mrs. Lee, whose obituary appeared in our last issue, was the above venerable lady, relict of the…

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Obituary

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 November 1918 · page 2

Our readers will regret to learn of the death of Arthur Cyril, third son of Mr. and Mrs. John Blewitt, of Royalla, which occurred in…

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Obituary

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 November 1918 · page 2

It is with feelings of profound regret that we have to record the death of Mrs. J. J. Hyndes, of Dulwich Hill, and daughter of Mrs…

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Captain's Flat. OBITUARY

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 November 1918 · page 2

On last Friday, at the residence of Mr. Thos. Spooner, there passed away one of Australia's oldest pioneers, in the person of Mr. Shepherd. Mr. Shepherd was…

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