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The wars & local soldiers, 1919

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Work on Monday. Effort to Organise Soldiers

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 May 1919 · page 3

The West Australian Government are maturing plans for the protection of loyalist workers at Fremantle, and are erecting barricades. Work has…

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Anzac

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 6 May 1919 · page 2

THE following address, delivered by the Rev. R. E. Davies, our one time Presbyterian Minister, on Anzac Day, has been handed to us…

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Soldiers' Letters

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 May 1919 · page 2

The name of the troopship or vessel should be included in the address of all letters and telegrams addressed to soldiers arriving by transport, and also to…

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Soldier Settlements

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 May 1919 · page 4

Applications will be received by the Director of Soldiers' Settlements, Departments of Lands, Sydney, up to May 16:—…

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Shooting Affrays. Midnight Tragedy. Charge Against Returned Soldier. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 May 1919 · page 3

Joseph Walker, aged 54 years, was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital shortly after midnight, with two bullet wounds in his head, one in the…

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District Soldiers. Home-comings and Letters

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 May 1919 · page 3

Gunner Les. Douglas, of the 5th Trench Mortar Battery, and only son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Douglas, of Freer-street, Wagga, returned from the…

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Returned Soldiers' Request. Lands Department Work. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 May 1919 · page 4

A deputation representing a new organisation known as the Late A.I F. Auctioneers, Real Estate, Stock and General Commission Agents'…

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Anzac Wedding

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 8 May 1919 · page 2

A very pretty military wedding took place at the Adelong Methodist Church, on 16th April, Rev. A. T. Newton officiating. The…

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Slim War Tricks of Past Days. Ingenuity in Battle

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 8 May 1919 · page 5

The finest compliment ever paid the slim expedients resorted to by our forefathers in war time is the adoption of quite a number of…

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Miscellaneous Making the Army's Eyes. a New industry War has Created for Us

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 8 May 1919 · page 6

When the war broke out the manufacture of optical glasses was, to all intents and purposes, the monopoly of we have organised the industry on a…

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Work for Returned Soldiers

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 8 May 1919 · page 2

The conditions governing the grant of £500,000 made by the Federal Government to Local Government bodies for the construction of public…

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The Proposed Soldiers' Club

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 8 May 1919 · page 2

Several towns have provided their returned braves with a club house, the public subscribing same as a memorial. Cootamundra, which has been…

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Soldiers Admitted. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 8 May 1919 · page 1

A mass meeting of members of the Sydney Wharf Labourers' Union this morning decided to admit the whole of the members of the…

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War! What War?

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 9 May 1919 · page 3

Eye-witnesses have expressed amazement at the subservient friendliness that greeted the Allied armies of occupation in some of the Rhine cities. A woman in…

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Section Seven. Responsibilities for the Crimes of the War

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 May 1919 · page 2

The Allies publicly arraign the ex-Emperor William "for a supreme offence against international morality…

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Slim War Tricks of Past Days. Ingenuity in Battle

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 9 May 1919 · page 3

The finest compliment ever paid the slim expedients resorted to by our forefathers in war time is the adoption of quite a number of…

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Soldier Politician

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 9 May 1919 · page 2

THIS paper will always have a good word for the man who left a soft job, for which he was well paid, to go to the war. Such a one…

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Commonweal Grant. Employment of Returned Soldiers

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 May 1919 · page 4

The Local Government Department wrote to the Wagga Council [?] meeting last night stating that the Commonwealth Government, would…

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Disabled Soldiers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 May 1919 · page 2

At Concord, near Sydney, there is a home for disabled soldiers, many of whom will remain there till claimed by death. Those who are in anyway…

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Barellan News. Soldiers' Memorial

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 May 1919 · page 3

The matter of the soldiers' memorial initiated by the Barellan footballers last season is assuming concrete form. The co-operation of the…

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