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The wars & local soldiers, 1920

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Anzac Day. Local Soldiers Celebrate

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1920 · page 2

We must congratulate the local Branch of the Soldiers and Sailors' League on their arrangements in connection with Anzac Day. Most…

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Anzac Day. Services At COOLAMON

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1920 · page 4

A united service was held at Coolamon on Anzac Day, in Turner Bros stadium. The seating accommodation was inadequate. The service which…

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Soldiers' Pensions

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1920 · page 2

The Repatriation Bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives on Friday, sets out the percentage of pension payable on total…

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Welcome Home

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 2

Once again the Oddfellows' Hall was crowded, on Thursday night last, the occasion being to extend a welcome back to Adelong to Driver Tom…

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Anzac Day. Coolamon Methodists

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 1

Anzac Day was observed at the Methodist Church, Coolamon, on Sunday night by a special service conducted by Rev. L. L. Bird. The preacher…

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A War Horror

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 4

It is from a book just published, entitled, "Tanks in the Great War," by Colonel J.F.C. Fuller, D.S.O., and forecasts what the next war will mean…

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Successful Effort. Sports at Culcairn. Soldiers Memorial Hall

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 4

Sports in aid of the soldiers' memorial ball building fund at Culeairn took place on April 26. They were a success from a financial and sporting point…

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Defence of Australia. Soldiers' Resolution. Army in Readiness. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 2

A conference of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League at Perth has carried a resolution strongly recommending that the…

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Welcome Home to Driver and Mrs Thos. Lloyd

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 3

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Ganmain. Anzac Day Celebrations

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 2

Aozac Day was will observed at Ganmain and Matong on Sunday list. At St. Peter’s Church, Ganmain, a children’s service was held at It a in v large…

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Anzac Day. Appropriate Celebrations

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 2

By honouring Anzac Day u it did Coolamon honored itself. The public celebration was a military church parade in the afternoon, bat during the day special…

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Anzac Day. at St. John's Church

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 2

A COMMEMORATION service was held at St. John's Church on Sunday evening last. Special hymns were sung (including Kipling's…

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Lady Astor Confesses Hate of Prohibition, (Published by Arrangement.) American Returned Men Vow Not to Marry

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 3

Prohibitionists have attempted to ?how that Lady Astor, the British woman M.P., is on their aide. That it untrue. Lady Astor believes in…

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Our Open Column. Anzac Day Observance. (To the Editor)

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 3

SIR,—Allow me to correct you in your statement re Anzac Day, wherein you state "The business places observed the day as a close…

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In Pre-war Days

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 3

Remember in pre-war days—that happy time which none of us valued, when cheap labour and, in consequence, cheap shopping were the order of the…

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Changes Wrouught by the War "End the Rancours." Address In America VANCOUVER

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 8

In speaking at the Atlantic City, Sir Auckland Geddes said that the changes wrought by war in England almost deserved the title of revolution. Vast…

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German Deception. Ailed Mission Discovers Hidden Arms. Prisoners Of, War Still Missing. Muddied Turkish Records. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 2

The British Military Mission in Berlin has reported that only 220 prisoners of war in Germany were still unaccounted for at the time the There was no similar body searching for records of deaths of British prisoners in Turkey, The list of prisoners unaccounted for has been…

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Incapacitated Soldiers. Scale of Pensions

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 6

The [?] which was passed by the [?] Representatives sets our the [?] pension payable on [?]…

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The Blinded Soldiers' Enterprise

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 7

Inaugurated on October 20th, 1919, the N.S.W. Bunded Soldiers' Tea Company, Ltd., has [?]acy achieved the prime object of its promoters, and…

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War Internees

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1920 · page 4

Senator Gardiner (N.S.W.) was told by the Minister for Defence in the Senate that 154 German residents from Rabaul were interned during the war…

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