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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 26 November 1918 · page 3

The sweeping of the Bosphorus has been completed and British and French vessels have gone to various portions…

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Our Soldier Boys. Interesting Letter

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 26 November 1918 · page 2

Master Philip Hardy, son of Mr. Wm, Hardy, of Sutton, has received the following interesting letter from his former teacher, Pte. P. J. F. Pidgeon, of the…

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Masquerading as Wounded Soldier

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 November 1918 · page 4

Charles Clifford McMullen, 23, who was arrested for vagrancy at Wagga on Saturday, was dressed in the uniform of a…

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The War's Aftermath

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 November 1918 · page 6

The Germans at Inchkeith say that the British have sunk 30 or 40 U-boats out of the supposed remaining total. If this is true…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 November 1918 · page 9

The German situation with the Bolsheviks is reported to be spreading rapidly. This causes the greatest concern in the…

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The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 November 1918 · page 3

A Berlin message says Erzberger has informed the north German Gazette that the new Government resolved if Britain…

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Our Soldier Boys. the Late Pte. W. B. P. PENNEY

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

Writing from France, under date 21/9/'19, to Mr. F. Penney, Pte. W. N. Parker and Cpl. F. J. Parker. says:—" Perhaps nobody quite…

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Soldiers of the Snows. Italy's Fine Mountain Warriors

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 November 1918 · page 6

Sir William Robertson has described the Italian Alpini as "the most amazing soldiers in the world." These mountain fighters have…

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What Soldiers May and May Not Do

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 November 1918 · page 6

Imitating the bugle-calls of the enemy is quite legitimate; so is the wearing of their uniform, with one reservation. A soldier may not fire on…

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Welcome Home

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 December 1918 · page 2

On Friday afternoon last Braidwood donned its holiday attire and hoisted its flags once more in honor of the return of Sapper…

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An Anzac in Trouble

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 3 December 1918 · page 2

At the Goulburn Police Court before Mr. W. S. Arnott, P.M., on Friday, Ernest Roy Hush, 21, was charged with stealing at Goulburn…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 December 1918 · page 7

The Admiralty has announced that all Russian ships seized by the Germans and all submarines in the Black Sea have…

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War Chest Day

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 December 1918 · page 2

The Red Cross function in aid of War Chest day gives promise of being as successful as its forerunners. Additional prizes for the…

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The War's Aftermath

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 December 1918 · page 5

General von Arnim, with other officers heading the Fourth, Army, has sent delegates to Berlin with deadly threat that the army will…

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The Cost of War

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 December 1918 · page 4

Two casualty lists have been issued—by the British Empire and Germany—during the past few days, and allowing that prisoners…

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The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 3 December 1918 · page 3

Forty British divisions are ready to enter Germany. Mr. Walter Long says the only solution re the Pacific…

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Returned Soldiers. Settlement on the Land

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 December 1918 · page 4

The Minister for Repatriation has promised consideration to the request of a deputation representing 62 branches of the Returned…

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Soldiers Remarkable Escape

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 December 1918 · page 4

One of the soldier-farmers at Oooma settlement, in the Forbes district, Tom Sloper, narrowly escaped death in the recent bush…

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Our Soldier Boys

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 3 December 1918 · page 2

Lieutenant Norman Southwell, who was seriously wounded at the front, has returned to his father's residence, Heywood, Hall. His…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 December 1918 · page 2

Mr. Edward Tupper, organiser of the British National Fireman and Sailors' Union, has intimated in the course of an interview that…

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