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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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The War Loan

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 October 1918 · page 2

The total subscriptions from Braidwbod and Tallaganda Shire to the Seventh War Loan, which closed on Tuesday last, amounted…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 October 1918 · page 9

On Wednesday night the following message was received from Amsterdam :—Berlin reports state that Germany accepts President…

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Late War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 October 1918 · page 9

The United Press Association announces that the prisoners taken an the Allied drive in Flanders exceed 10,000, while 100 guns…

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The War Loan. Date Extended

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

This morning the Rev. Robert Elliott received word from the Lord Mayor that applications for the Seventh War Loan had been…

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Latest War News. SYDNEY

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 October 1918 · page 4

A Munich message states that the Socialist Congress at Munich unanimously demands the abdication of the German…

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The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON

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

French cavalry have reached Ostend where the British naval forces landed. The United Press learns that the…

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Voluntary Enlistment Ballot

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 October 1918 · page 3

The meeting convened by the Mayor in connection with the above took place at the Council Chambers on Wednesday night. The Mayor presided, others in…

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Local and General News Farewell and Welcome Home Committee

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

A meeting of this committee was [?] at the Council Chambers on Thursday night last, the Mayor presiding. The secretary…

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Late War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 October 1918 · page 7

The enemy is steadily falling back all along his front, and although he is being closely pressed he is retiring in good order…

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Latest War News

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

It is reporter in Amsterdam that the German reply to President Wilson's [?] was handed to the Swiss Minister at Berlin…

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The War. To-Day's Cables

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

The Franco-Servians have reached Zaichar-Sevia. Christiana advices state that the German Empress is…

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Our Soldier Boys

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

Pte. T. A. Nelligan writing to Miss M. Gregory, from France, under date August 14, 1918, says: Dear Miss Gregory.—"Long ere…

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One " Ride" Killed in Action

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 3

Gone are the days of the charge of the cavalry; Gone are the trumpets and guns from the field;…

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Local and General News Welcome Home at Nerriga

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 9

Mr. M. J. McNamara, secretary of the Nerriga Farewell and Welcome Home Committee, writes :—"Will you allow me to correct a…

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War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 9

British forces have reached the outskirts of Valenciennes. An Amsterdam message says that the Germans are…

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District War Loan Quota

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 2

The president of the war loan committee, Mr. W. U. Alley, has asked us to mention that about £3,000 is still required to make…

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War Pigeons. Flying From France to Yorkshire

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 6

The announcement of the War Office that a large number of homing-pigeons are being utilised for naval and military purposes, and that many of these…

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The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON

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

The Servians are within six miles of the Danube. The German rearguards are resisting strongly in Moravia…

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Our Soldier Boys

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

An English mail to hand this week brought many letters from soldiers to relatives and friends. Gunner Granville Jordan writes…

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Local and General News Welcome Home at Major's Creek

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1918 · page 7

On Saturday night last a large crowd assembled at the local hall to welcome home Sapper J. Green, who has just returned invalided…

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