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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

827 stories in Riverina's papers · page 14 of 42

Anzac Day Commemoration. at Lockhart

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 2

The arrangements for the commemoration and celebration are very complete. Briefly they are:— 9 a.m.: Pilgrimage to Returned…

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Anzac Day Saturday Next, 25th APRIL

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 2

The twenty-first anniversary of the Landing at Gallipoli will be celebrated on Saturday next, April 25. the celebration at Narandera will…

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Whitton R.s. League Anzac Day Arrangements

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 2

A well-attended meeting of the Whitton sub-branch of the R.S. League was hold on Saturday to make final arrangements for the…

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Defacing War Memorials

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 4

It is surely an unaccountable thing that appeals should have to be made to people to refrain from disfiguring war memorials and other monuments in public places. It might be supposed that even the brainless hoodium would have sufficient respect for a war memorial to resist the…

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Shooting Accident Motor Cyclist Injured Boy Fatally Wounded Death in Hospital Admitted to Hospital

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 2

REGINALD O'Brien, aged 14 years and 11 months, died in Leeton District Hospital on Sunday as the result of a WILLIAM WEYMOUTH, a recent arrival from Hay, had a severe fall from a motor cycle outfit at the Monument in…

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Sanctions Failure Germany Wanted War To Hasten Treaty Revision Mr. Baldwin Criticised London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 1

Discussing on a wider aspect the failure of sanctions, the Berlin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian" points out that…

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District News Whitton Returned Soldiers' League

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 3

A well attended meeting of the Whitton sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League was held on Saturday to make final arrangements for…

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Returned Soldiers' Assn. Meeting on Thursday Night

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 3

MAJOR R. A. Goldrick will traverse the following points and questions in an address to be delivered on Thursday night…

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Italian Troops Advancing on Addis Ababa All Abyssinians in Capital Ordered to Colors "Will Win or Die Together" Foreigners Leaving Town War Expected to Continue Even After Capture of City LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 1

The Italians are now Virtually within a stone's throw of Addis Ababa, two advancing columns of 2000 motorised white troops having crossed the Robi River, 30 miles north-east of Debra Birham on the road to the capital, while…

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Anzac Day a Close Holiday Arrangements for

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 7

Anzac Day will be celebrated through the British Empire on Saturday, and in Australia it will be a close holiday, in conformity with the…

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League Appeals Against Use of Poison Gas Italy Reminded of Protocol Signed in 1925 "Outlawed Method of War" Captain Eden's Condemnation Impossible to Humanise War, Says French Delegate GENEVA

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 1

The Council of the League of Nations to-day unanimously carried a resolution addressing to Italy a supreme appeal to dispense with the use of poison gas and to bring to the solution of the conflict the spirit which the League…

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Anzac Concert

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 April 1936 · page 3

In an advertisement in this issue the Wagga branch of the Returned Soldiers' "League expresses thanks to Mr. Dal Cross for his offer to make…

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Anzac Day President’s Message

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 April 1936 · page 4

“The 21st anniversary of the Landing on Gallipoli and the baptism of fire by the Australian troops—the day now known .as Anzac. Day, will…

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Anzac Day Post Office Arrangements

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 April 1936 · page 5

The following arrangements will be observed at the local post office on Anzac Day (April 25th) : Office open from 9 to 10 a.m. for…

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Anzac Day Observance at Hillston

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 23 April 1936 · page 4

Anzac Day—Saturday' next—will be observed as a close holiday by all business houses in Hillston, the late shopping night being to-morrow…

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Anzac Celebration In Turkish Vicinity Significant Moves LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 23 April 1936 · page 1

The Australian cruisers, Australia and Sydney, are to meet of Kllia Limen on April 29 to conduct an Anzac commemoration ceremony…

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Anzac

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 2

To-morrow this district, in common with all parts of Australia and New Zealand, will fittingly honor the Anzacs, living or dead. Twenty-one…

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Anzac Day

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 2
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Anzac Day will be commemorated in Leeton with the usual march of returned soldiers commencing at 10.30 and the combined memorial…

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Anzac—and the Future

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 4

Anzac Day, 1936, will be celebrated throughout Australia in a spirit that is manifestly the same, yet inherently different from that of former years. The simple and touching ceremony—the Last Post, the Silence, the Reveille—continues to concentrate the thoughts of the nation on those…

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