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The wars & local soldiers, 1923

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Anzac Day

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1923 · page 1

The pupils and teachers, with a few parents, met at the local public school last Wednesday, 25th instant, to pay tribute to…

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The Anzac Day Sports

Southern Star · Saturday 28 April 1923 · page 2

The Bega branch of the Returned Soldiers' League held a day's sports on the Sports Ground on Wednesday, and thereby netted a nice sum for…

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Anzac Dat. (Sung at the Commemoration Service on Wednesday)

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1923 · page 1

From the country and the city, From the river and the plain, From the valley and the mountain They might never see again;…

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Soldiers' Memorial

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1923 · page 2

Mr. G. R. Woolford, of Junction-street, has left at this office a souvenir copy of the "North-West champion," published at Moree, giving particulars…

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Death of a Returned Soldier Private Lex Pender

Southern Star · Wednesday 2 May 1923 · page 2

The war is not over yet for many of the men who fought, and for those near anil clear to them. Many of the men who were lucky enough to…

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One Soldier Settlement Makes Good

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 9 May 1923 · page 7

The Hill View soldier settlers, near Liverpool, N.S.W., have marketed 7461 pairs of cockerels and old hens during the last seven months…

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War Medals

The Nowra Leader · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 5

Mrs. Braithwaite has received three war medals awarded to her husband Ishmael, for war service. He made the supreme, sacrifice. The medals are…

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Soldiers' Memorial

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1923 · page 1

A meeting' of subscribers was held on Monday night in connection with the local Soldiers' Memorial. Mr J…

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War Memorial

Southern Star · Wednesday 23 May 1923 · page 2

The War Memorial committee met on Friday afternoon Present: Messrs Bush (chairman). Dingle, Wayland Phillips, Thatcher, and Blomfield J…

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War Memorial

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 3

The War Memorial committee met on Friday afternoon Present: Messrs Bush (chairman), Dingle, Wayland Phillips, Thatcher, and Blomfield J…

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Victoria Keeps on Objecting to the Capital. Proposed War Memorial at Canberra

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 June 1923 · page 5

Some little time back Mr. Austin Chapman called upon the general secretary of the Commercial Travellers' Association and asked him what the…

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Proposed Soldiers Memorial. Nowra Lags Behind

The Nowra Leader · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 2

Nowra is one of the few towns of importance in the State that has not clone something practical to commemorate the memory of those from this…

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Australia in The War. Historian and His Staff

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1923 · page 4

In a remote old homestead in the Federal Capital Territory, far from the noise and bustle of the bu y world the writing of…

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Cobargo District Soldiers' Memorial. (To the Editor)

The Cobargo Chronicle · Saturday 30 June 1923 · page 2

Sir,--Repeated references in your paper to a public matter apparently abahdohed seems to have little effect. I refer to the…

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Welcome Home Party. Presentation to Mr. and J. C. Morison

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 18 July 1923 · page 1

About three weeks ago Mr. J. C. Morison and Miss Graham, of Bellawongarah, i were united in the holy bonds of matrimony. They returned…

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Soldiers' Memorial. Is the Proposal Forgotten ?

The Nowra Leader · Friday 10 August 1923 · page 7

It is some considerable time since anything has been done in connection with the proposed memorial to soldiers in Nowra. The further we recede from…

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Have You any War Bands You want to Sell?

The Cobargo Chronicle · Saturday 11 August 1923 · page 4

It is not a case of "new lamps for old," but "new Bonds for old Bonds" in connection with the Commonwealth Government's…

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The Soldiers' Ball

Southern Star · Saturday 11 August 1923 · page 2

The annual tall of the Bega branch of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors League was held in the Lyric Hall on Wednesday night and was as…

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War In Dwarfdom

The Nowra Leader · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 4

" Boomerang " writes as follows in the " Evening News " : To undisturbed bush it is no uncommon sight to witness a battle loyal between two tribes of…

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Candelo Soldiers' Memorial

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 3

The following Roll of Honor to be inser[?]ed on the local Memorial monument is submitted to the public for final revi[?]on Corrections of any…

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