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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1920

163 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 9

War Gratuities. Mr. Hughess Bill

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1920 · page 4

The second reading of the War Gratuities Bill was moved in the House of Representatives by the Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, on…

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Short Serial Story. the Spider's Web. (Continued). A Romance of Love and War in the Heart of Africa

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1920 · page 6

Anyhow, what had convention to do with the African bush? The girl should come home, and he would let her have the house for…

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Returned Soldiers' League

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1920 · page 7

A meeting of the Braidwood branch of the above was held at the Council Chambers on Saturday night last. Mr. W. Colley,…

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The Editor's Note Book. Land for Soldiers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1920 · page 1

Mr. Sykes, organiser for the Nationalist party, during a speech in Braidwood on Thursday night last, made the deliberate statement that…

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Schoolmaster Caned. Returned Soldier Fined

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 March 1920 · page 4

Gordon Scarratt, a returned soldier, was proceeded against at the Kogarah Court for assaulting George Ernest Albert…

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Soldiers' Welcome Home Successful Function

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 5

The final welcome home to our returned heroes was given by the Welcome Home Committee at the Literary Institute on Wednesday…

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Anzac Memorial Building Fund

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 2

The Anzac Memorial Building Fund has now reached £60,000…

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Unveiling a War Trophy

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 2

The captured German gun is to be unveiled near the Central Railway Station to-day…

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Short Serial Story. the Spider's Web. a Romance of Love and War in the Heart of Africa. (Continued)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 3

'I's that you, Harbinger?" cried the abductor. "Yes, I'm here; what do you want of me?"…

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Soldiers' Pensions. the New Repatriation Bill

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 4

While the new Repatriation Bill provides a fixed maximum rate of pension of £4 a week to totally and permanently incapacitated…

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Death of Local Soldier

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 2

The death of Private Howard Norman Blundell, late A.I.F., son of Mr. and Mrs. Blundell, late of Condor, Uriarra, died in the Tumut Hospital on March 4. He…

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Soldier Blinded by Blow

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 2

During an affray on the steamer Burmah at Townsville, a fireman named Bailey, a returned soldier, was struck on an eye which had…

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Welcome Home Committee

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 2

The raffle in connection with the final welcome home to our returned soldiers which yielded over £17, was drawn in the Council…

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Civil War in Germany

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 4

Messages from Germany and Paris indicate that what is virtually civil war between the workers and the Government troops is in…

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Soldiers' Memorial

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 2

The residents of Tilba, a village some 40 miles south of Moruya erected a fine granite obelisk, at a cost of £180, the other day as a…

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Captain's Flat. Mr. Osborne Presents 18 Returned Local Soldiers With £5 Each

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 2

Rather a pleasant evening was spent here on the 19th inst. on the occasion of the distribution of Mr. F. Osborne's £5 to each returned…

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The Federal Capital. Ready in Five Years. Helping Soldier Settlers

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 2

It is hoped, so the Prime Minister stated in Parliament on Wednesday, in reply to a question by Mr. Marr, that, within a period of…

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Local and General News Soldier Settlement

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 April 1920 · page 2

We understand that the question of resuming land for soldier settlement in the Braidwood district was discussed at the recent…

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Bequest to Soldiers

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 April 1920 · page 2

A digger announced to his comrades at the Returned Soldiers' Congress on Saturday morning that a squatter had left the League about a million sterling…

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Stranded Soldiers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 7

Inquiries are bring made by the Federal authorities, into the report that Australian ex-soldiers are stranded in London…

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