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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1923

45 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 3

Preference to Soldiers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1923 · page 2

The last meeting of the Shire Council dealt with a letter from the Returned Soldiers' Association protesting against a returned soldier being…

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War Service Homes Bungle

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 5

The Minister for Works and Railways, moving the second reading of the War Service Homes Bill in the House of Representatives, recounted…

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Soldiers' Memorial

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 2

The secretary to the local Soldiers' Memorial Committee is in receipt of a telegram, in response to enquiries, from the architects,…

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Christ Church Soldiers

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 2

A ceremony will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) at the Church of England when about twenty trees will be planted in the Church…

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War Service Homes

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 August 1923 · page 2

An aggregate loss of £343,177 has been incurred by the War Service Homes Disposal Board. New South Wales had a loss on sales of material…

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War Crimes

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 August 1923 · page 2

The Paris War Council, continuing its examination of German war crimes, has sen[?]enced to death General Von Jaeger for killing and burning…

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Does It Mean War?

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1923 · page 5

Italy has landed forces on the Greek island of Corfu to enforce compliance with her demand for compensation and apologies from Greece…

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War History

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 September 1923 · page 2

From the publishers, Messrs. Angus & Robertson, Ltd., Sydney, we have received the eighth volume of "The Official History of Australia in the…

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Our War Loans

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 September 1923 · page 1

The Federal Treasurer expresses disappointment that the conversion loan has not been fully subscribed. The fact that the public of Australia…

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[Published by Arrangement.] Will It be Civil War ? Prohibition in U.S.A.

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 3

Referring to the frenzied (and fertile) effects to enforce prohibition in America the New York correspondent of the London "Daily…

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Soldiers' Pensions

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1923 · page 7

At the annual congress, of returned soldiers it was resolved that the maximum pension should be £8 per fortnight instead of £4/4/…

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Soldier Settlement

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1923 · page 7

In the light of his Ministerial experience Mr. Wearne thinks it unnecessary to establish a Board of directors for soldier settlement…

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War Museum

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 October 1923 · page 4

Mr. Justice Ferguson urges that further effort should be made to have the Australian War Museum collection shown…

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Police Strike in Melbourne Lawless Mobs Take Charge of City Three Killed and Many Wounded

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 November 1923 · page 7

Melbourne is in the throes of a serious police strike. The city is without a night patrol and plain-clothes men…

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Soldiers' Memorial

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 November 1923 · page 2

Mr. J. Lyford, contractor to the Soldiers' Memorial Committee, has taken delivery of the prepared material for the erection of the…

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War Memorial for Canberra

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 November 1923 · page 2

The Australian War Memorial is to be erected on Mount Ainslie, Canberra, Federal Cabinet having approved of a recommendation by…

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Returned Soldiers' Act

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 November 1923 · page 2

Richard C. Webb sued the Ta[?]aganda Shire Council for a breach of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Employment Act of 1919 for having…

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Soldiers' Memorial

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 November 1923 · page 2

It has been definitely arranged to have the unveiling ceremony performed on Saturday, December 15. The Minister for Defence,…

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Australia in the War

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 November 1923 · page 2

The new volume of the Australian Official War History (the fourth to be issued and the twelfth of the series) is a book no one can afford to miss. It contains 753…

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Soldiers' Memorial

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 November 1923 · page 2

The unveiling of the memorial to the fallen soldiers of Queanbeyan and district on Saturday, 15th December, should go down as one of the most important…

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