Anzac Day Mass at St. Michael's Cathedral
The annual mass for the repose of the souls of those who died in the two wars will be offered in St. Michael's…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1949
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Anzac Day!
Yesterday, in the churches throughout Australia, feeling references were made to the Anzacs; and today there was fitting…
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Today is another Anzac Day, and Australia's heroes who now rest in Elysium will again be accorded the honor that they achieved at the cost of their lives in the two greatest wars in history…
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SYDNEY. Sunday: Thousands of visitors have arrived in Sydney for tomorrow's Anzac Day march, which is expected to be…
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Special Anzac Day services will be held at the Wagga Anglican and Catholic churches today. In each church the services are timed so that they will be completed before the commencement of the…
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In glorious sunshine Anzac Day was celebrated at Cootamundra today. Proceedings this morning included the annual march the ceremony at the cenotaph, and the…
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For thousands of "Diggers" of World Wars I and II the Anzac Day period offers opportunities for memorial services, for reunions and…
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The following anonymous poem was blown by the wind into a slit trench at El Agheila during a heavy bombardment…
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And some fool whimpered that they died in vain; Whereafter came a woman with a bowed head,…
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The Dawn Service in Leeton yesterday morning was attended by 40 ex-servicemen and a number of relatives of those who had paid the…
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Requiem Eucharist was celebrated in St. John's church of England yesterday morning for the repose of the souls of those…
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The Reverends Maclean and Prentice, or The Rock, conducted the Anzac service at the Uranquinty monument yesterday…
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On Sunday night, at the Cootamundra Methodist church, Mr. J. J. Nichols, headmaster of the Cootamundra I.H.S. gave the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Governor Northcott Was Wounded on Gallipoli
Lieut. General John Northcott, C.B., M.V.O., was appointed Governor of New South Wales in 1946. He was born in Victoria on March 24, 1890…
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Anzac Day was celebrated in many parts of the world yesterday. Overseas messages give details of observances in Malaya, Japan, New Zealand, England and America…
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The spirit of Anzac still lives in the hearts of the people of Narrandera. Yesterday a record attendance took part in the memorial service…
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Yesterday—Anzac Day—dawned with a nip of coldness in the air, but by 9.45 a.m., the time for starting the pilgrimage to the cemetery, Lockhart and the surrounding country was bathed in glorious sunshine…
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"It was a clear, bright day like this, 34 years ago, when the Anzac landing was made at Gallipoli," the State Governor (Lt.-Gen. John Northcott) said in his Anzac address at Griffith today…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Crowds estimated at 250,000 lined Sydney's streets today to watch the Anzac, Day march of 32,000 men from the Boer War and the two World Wars. The State secretary of the R.S.L. (Mr. Lewis), said the number of marchers was a record for Anzac Day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wagga Crowds Pay Tribute to Nation's Dead Anzac March Described As "Best Ever"
From dawn to midday yesterday, the people of Wagga reverently paid homage to the men of Anzac and others who fought and died in World Wars I and II. From midday onwards, veterans of both the 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars…
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