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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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Latest War News. Last of Bolo

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 April 1918 · page 9

Bolo has been executed. He was confronted with Caillaux and Humbert. After the interview lie was silent, and was very weak. He…

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The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 April 1918 · page 2

Field-Marshal Haig reports there is no change in the British front. Great hostile artillery activity exists from Givenchy to eastward…

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Interesting War Notes One-armed Officers at the Front

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 April 1918 · page 6

More than one instance has come to light of officers who have lost one arm being allowed to go to the front again. They are keen men, of course who feel…

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Returned Soldiers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 April 1918 · page 2

Private W. H. Stalker, son of Mr. W. H. Stalker, for Jembaicumbene, is on a visit to his parents, having been granted a month's…

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Fighting the Turk. Boro Soldier's Letter

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 April 1918 · page 9

Trooper R. Sturgiss, of Lower Boro, in a letter dated 23rd November, to his people, who reside at Lower Boro, writes:—We Light…

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Action of a Returned Soldier

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 April 1918 · page 4

"Coming recently by train to Harden," writes a much-travelled min who keeps his eyes open, "at Yass Junction an incident occurred so…

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Anzac Day

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 April 1918 · page 2

The rector of Christ Church, Queanbeyan, has been requested by the Anzacs at the Royal Military College to hold a special service on Thursday, 23rd instant,…

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War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1918 · page 3

Sir Douglas Haig's troops have withdrawn from the advanced positions east of Ypres to a new line. The Germans have consequently…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1918 · page 2

The British lines in France are more secure than they have been, according to despatches from Ottowa…

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Late War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1918 · page 5

It is reported from London that the French are heavily engaged in a new battle on the northern front…

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The War Loan

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1918 · page 2

Subscriptions to the Sixth War Loan close to-morrow. It has been officially stated that this will be the last of the free income tax…

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The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 April 1918 · page 2

The Paris correspondent of the "Morning Post" says that German masses by their very numbers are now bottled in a narrow stretch of…

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Red Cross Society. Soldiers Acknowledge Parcels

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 April 1918 · page 2

The Hon. Secretary (Queanbeyan Branch) received by last mail the following additional acknowledgments of parcels from local boys on…

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The Real Anzac

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 April 1918 · page 2

There are plenty of slouch-hatted soldiers in town, Doughty and deboniar, stalwart and brown;…

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Anzac Day. the Glorious 25th of April!

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 April 1918 · page 2

The date will go down in Australian history, in the history of the world, as that on which the flower of the manhood of a comparatively young Dominion won its spurs…

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War's Toll

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 April 1918 · page 2

The 393rd casualty list, issued this morning totals 280, of which 89 were injured. Injured seriously, previously…

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War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 April 1918 · page 4

The War Department, in a statement, says that the Germans have made eroumous sacrifices of men in Flanders without gaining…

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Britain's War Bill

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 April 1918 · page 7

The British Chancellor ol the Exchequer has introduced the new Budget providing for the raising of £114,000,000 by new…

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War Rumours. Reassuring Statement

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 April 1918 · page 4

Considerable alarm was caused in Melbourne and in other centres in Australia on Tuesday as a result of published statements and…

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Latest War News. Offensive Resumed

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 April 1918 · page 2

The Germans resumed the offensive on the west front. An attack was launched on both the northern and southern battlefields…

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