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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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Enlistments

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 June 1918 · page 3

Fifty-two recruits were accepted in New South Wales on Thursday. They include:—A. C. Kirby, farm hand, and K. K. Kilvoy, farm hand, both of…

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Our Soldier Boys. Farewell and Welcome Home Social

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 2

Another of these enjoyable functions took place in the Triumph Hall on the evening of Monday last. The band enlivened the proceedings by playing martial…

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War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 5

The Austrians claim to have taken 15,000 Italian prisoners, and to have Captured Copo Sile. An Italian official communique…

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War Profits

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 1

The Federal Government is still being energetically pressed to repeal the War Time Profits Tax. The Commercial and Industrial…

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Interesting War Souvenir

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 2

Dated "Somewhere in France, 29/4/18," Mrs. C. T. Campbell, Secretary to the local Red Cross Society, has received and handed to us for publication the following…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 9

The position on the Italian front is officially, declared to be more favorable. On Monday the enemy held two-thirds of…

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Amazing War Prophecy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 9

In the wild bogland near Ballyeroy, overlooking Achill and the sea, lives an old peasant woman, known far and wide as the…

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Late War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 7

A London message says that the French press is satisfied that the Austrian offence is a failure. The battle in the [?]ountains in…

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The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 2

The Paris Press assumes the Austrians will be unable to avert a disastrous defeat by Italy. Her losses are already enormous…

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THE Queanbeyan Age. Friday, June 21, 1918. Australian War Opinion

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 2

Mr. Holman, the State Premier, in rebutting a charge that he had accused trades unionists of disloyalty, during the debate on the…

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Training Our Soldiers. Big Repatriation Scheme

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 5

A London cable says : A scheme whereby the Australian force abroad, during the period after the war ends and before…

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Returned Soldiers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 2

On Monday night last Privates W. Roberts and I. Crandell, two returned soldiers, were welcomed home by the residents of Major's…

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Settling Returned Soldiers in the Federal Territory

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 2

Consideration is being given by the Federal Government to the question of settling returned soldiers in the Federal Territory at Canberra. In the House of…

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War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 4

The Italian situation continue excellent. The correspondent of the "Times" at Milan says that the offensive was literally a…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 7

Speaking at Chicago, Lord Dunmore said that Germany must achieve victory within six months, otherwise her defeat is certain…

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The War Bill

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 7

In moving for another war credit in the House of Commons the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the daily average…

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The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 2

The Italians have captured 45,000 Austrians and enormous booty. The French Press regard the defeat as almost a complete Austrian rout…

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Land for Soldiers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 1

Consideration is being given by the Federal Government to the question of settling returned soldiers in the Federal Territory at…

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Replacing Soldiers

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 3

Because three of her brothers have gone to the front and there is no one but her to assist her father in the smithy, Marjorie…

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Soldier's Estate Worth £28,630

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 2

Letters of administration have been granted in the estate of Pte. Brian Templer Barton, grazier, and a member of the A.I.F., late of Murrungundy, near…

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