Queanbeyan Diggers. Enthusiastic Welcome Home
The Triumph Hall was packed to overflowing on Tuesday night, when a number of returned soldiers were tendered an enthusiastic welcome home. The function…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1919
386 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 14 of 20
Councillors Welcome Home Clerk. Complimentary Dinner and Presentation to Cpl. G. O'Hanlon
Following the usual monthly meeting of the Yarrowlumla Shire Council on Tuesday, an adjournment was made to Mrs. Walsh's hotel when Corporal Gerald…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What Soldiers' Badges Mean
People are asking the meaning of the different badges, patches, and stripes that decorate the soldier's khaki…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bungendore. Welcome Home
A large and very happy gathering assembled at the Federal Hall to give a public welcome to three more of our gallant boys just returned. They were Privates…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Enthusiastic Welcome Home at Major's Creek
It was a "big' night at Major's Creek on Friday. The occasion was the welcome home to three more soldier heroes (Sergt, F…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local and General News Welcome Home
Private Vin. Irwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin, of Braidwood, arrived home on Friday nights last, after about three years' service…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War's Aftermath
Mr. Smillie (president of the Miners' Federation, speaking at Ayr, said that if the Government refused to nationalise the mines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Luck of a Canadian Soldier
Pte. E. Dunshea, who recently returned home ,had a particularly close call at the battle of Butle-court. He was on duty in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Soldier Boys
Yesterday, Mrs. J. H. Fitzgibbon received official notification that her son, Corporal Erle Capes, A.A.M.C., is returning by the transport…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Loan
A public meeting, convened by Major W. U. Alley, president of the Shire Council, was held at line Council Chambers yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Field Original Articles American War Gardens
The splendid work done by the United States War Garden Commission in largely increasing the export of food supplies to the Allies at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Leg-ironing Soldiers
Speaking on the Address-in-Reply in the Assembly on Tuesday night, Mr. Storey, leader of the Opposition, said the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Welcome Home
The largest number of heroes welcome home was that of Wednesday evening in the Federal Hall. when seven of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and General News Welcome Home Committee
A meeting of this committee was held at the Council Chambers on Thursday night last, over which the Mayor presided. There was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canberra Branch G.U.O.O.F. Presentation and Welcome Home
The Canberra Branch gave a welcome home to Bro. E. J. H. Poynting, who has just returned after nerving in the A.A.M.C. (Sea Transport), and a farewell presentation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Trophies
With reference to the application of Messrs. Gale and Nixon, secretaries of the Peace Day Committee, for War Souvenirs for Queanbeyan,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War's Aftermath
The "Times" correspondent at Copenhagen states that the insurrection in Upper Silesia is extending. It is reported that great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers' Memorial
The question of providing a memorial to the soldiers who enlisted from this district still drags its slow length along. This matter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good News for Councils. the Returned Soldiers' Grant
A telegram from Melbourne states that one of the conditions of the grant to municipalities by the Repatriation Department of £146,000,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Inventions by Boys. Ideas Which Were Well Rewarded
The war proved that all the inventive faculty and power of the British race did not lie only in the brains of grown-up men and women. There…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →