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The wars & local soldiers, 1916

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Soldiers Letters

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 8

Mrs. Albert Stony, of Braidwood, has received a letter from her son, Private Reg. Stone, from Abbassia Camp. Egypt, under date…

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Local and General Soldiers' Letters

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 2

Lieutenannt Rupert Chapman, writing from Gallipoli to his uncle, Austin Chapman, M.H.R., says: "We have some lively…

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Italy's War Leader

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 7 February 1916 · page 4

Just as General Joffre was practically unknown outside of France before the beginning of the war, so Italy's leader comes upon the European battlefield unherabled and…

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"Vast Arsenal." Britain's War Work

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 7 February 1916 · page 4

"A Neutral," whose contributions to the London press are attracting attention, declares that England's share is not understood on the Continent even by her Allies…

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Latest War News. London

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 7 February 1916 · page 2

The long looked for offensive against Salonika may now be taken as having commenced. The News Agency states that…

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War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 February 1916 · page 4

A rise in the river inundated the Turkish position at Kut-el-Amara. The enemy evacuated trenches on the British…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 February 1916 · page 7

It is reported that the German cruiser Room towed a prize ship into Bermuda port after a running fire of two hours…

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Queanbeyan War Service Committee

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 February 1916 · page 2

President: Mr. F. P. Woodward, Mayor. Hon. Secretaries: Messrs. J. Ridley and J. Keeffe…

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The War. To-day's Cables. London

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 February 1916 · page 2

Fully nine-tenths of the Roumanians are mobolised and more than half a million are massed on the Bulgar and Hungarian border…

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Report of Special Subcommittee Dealing with War Service Cards

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 February 1916 · page 2

1. It is recommended that all single men, prepared to enlist, be immediately called up. 2. It is not recommended that…

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Our Soldiers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 February 1916 · page 2

Mrs. Abel has received a cable from her husband, Lieut. Stan. Abel, from Zeitoun, Cairo, reporting all well. Lieutenant Abel…

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Latest War News

The Queanbeyan Leader · Thursday 10 February 1916 · page 2

The Echo De Paris published a report asserting that the Roumanian situation developing towards intervention…

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War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 February 1916 · page 5

A Copenhagen message says that a large German warship has Lean mined and sunk in the Kattegat…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 February 1916 · page 2

It is reported from New York that a British cruiser captured the German cruiser Roon, which was lately reported as cruising in…

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Women and the War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 February 1916 · page 3

Amongst the many other industrial evolutions which the war has brought about in Australia is the lady bank clerk…

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THE Queanbeyan Age. Friday, February 11, 1916. the War. To-day's Cables. London

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 February 1916 · page 2

A Boston message states that investigations into the alleged conspiracy of German sympathisers to harass Canadian cities has proceeded…

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Latest War News

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 14 February 1916 · page 2

Enemy aeroplane bombarded Italian town near the Adriatic killed 15 civilians including women and children. Uneasiness felt as to the fate of the…

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Women and War Waste. the Duty of Motherhood. Some Pertinent Facts to Consider. Man's Lost Sense of Fatherhood

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 14 February 1916 · page 4

(Mrs. Flora Annie Steel is one of our most distinguished novelists. Her subject today —the relations of man and woman—is one to which she has given lone years study…

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List of Wounded

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 2

The wounded are:—Howard Williams, shot in the leg; Private Body, unconscious from a baton stroke; Joseph Shaw, scalp wound; Hugh…

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War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 4

The Allies have saved 150,000 of the Servian array for further activity. The marvellous operation of their rescue is…

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