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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1919

386 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 10 of 20

Welcome Home

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 May 1919 · page 1

A very warm welcome home was given Privates C. Callaghan and J. Gallagher in the Federal Hall on Friday week…

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Bywong. Welcome Home

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 May 1919 · page 3

A hearty welcome home was tendered to Driver Joseph Gallagher on Friday last. The function was organised by his old school-mates of Bywong, and…

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The War's Aftermath

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1919 · page 4

A Paris message states that Marshal Foch, President Wilson, M. Clemenceau, and Mr. Lloyd George have had a long…

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The Soldiers' Vote

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1919 · page 1

The Paddington by election is chiefly remarkable for the attention which is being bestowed upon the returned soldiers. Each of…

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The War's Aftermath

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 May 1919 · page 5

The correspondent of the London "Times" at The Hague says that despite the organised clamor, increasing numbers of the people…

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Ludendorff on the War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 May 1919 · page 1

The Berlin correspondent of the New York "Post" interviewed General Ludendorff, who said that the Allies, as a result of the use…

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Miscellaneous Commerce Raiding. Some Experiences of an old Civil War "Pirate."

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 May 1919 · page 4

A pirate ship that respects neutral flags, with an incomplete crew, and a top speed of four miles an hour, how curiously it compares with the…

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Returning Soldiers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 May 1919 · page 7

The soldiers returning by the Warwickshire will disembark to-morrow…

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Welcome Home

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 June 1919 · page 4

Private R. A. L. Edwards, an original Anzac, has just returned to his home in Flemington, Sydney, after spending a fortnight…

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The War's Aftermath

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 June 1919 · page 4

The British War Office announces that on the Murmansk front the Bolsheviks attacked our positions on the southern shores of…

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Latest Cable News. Sale of War Vessels

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 June 1919 · page 7

The War Ministry has sold 68 obsolete ships to British owners land 57 to foreign owners. Altogether it received for the ships…

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The Mad Chinaman. Shot Dead By Soldier. "We Did This in Arizona."

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 3 June 1919 · page 2

After injuring seventeen people the mad Chinaman, who had barricaded himself in a building in Wentworth-avenue, keeping the…

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Villages for the Wounded

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 June 1919 · page 4

A new village, one of the by-products of the war, is about to arise in Hampshire. It is the first of the villages which the Minister of Pensions…

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The War's Aftermath

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 June 1919 · page 4

The correspondent of the London "Times" at Paris reports that it is authoritatively stated that if the v German peace treaty is not…

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Distributing War Trophies

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 June 1919 · page 4

One thousand German machine-guns have been distributed to various towns in England as war trophies. Twenty towns have refused machine guns as…

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Back from the War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 June 1919 · page 3

Private. R. A. L. Edwards, whose' welcome home at Major's Creek as reported in our last issue, relates some of his Experiences. He…

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Our Soldier Boys

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 June 1919 · page 2

Gunner "Jack" Lawless, A.F.A., 37th Balt., son of Mr. E. Lawless, arrived home in Queanbeyan this week. He has been on active service 18 months, and during that…

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Our Returned Soldiers. Welcome Home to Diggers

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 June 1919 · page 2

The welcome home at Barracks Flat on Saturday night to Pte. W. Muir. M.M., Driver J. Muir and Signaller T. Warren was indeed a growing tribute to the…

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The War's Aftermath

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 June 1919 · page 5

It is reported in Paris that Mr Lloyd George is impressed by the appeals to modify the treaty, so as to avoid Germany's passive…

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Hoskingtown. Welcome Home at Foxlow

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 2

Friday night, June 6, was one of the nights of the year—the welcoming home of Pte. R. Daniel, M.M., and Pte. Frank Doran. These two…

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