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The wars & local soldiers, 1926

42 stories in South Coast's papers · page 2 of 3

How Australian Ironmasters Helped Australia During the War. Ii

The Nowra Leader · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 2

Some little time after the war broke out, there was a world-wide Shortage of ships. Every ship that could he utilised for the transport of troops and ammunitions was put into…

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How Australian [?]Sters Helped Australia During the War. Ii

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 3

Some little time after the war broke out, there was a world-wide shortage of ships. Every ship that could be utilised for the trans [?]rt of…

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Work of The Red Cross Society The Aftermath of War

The South Coast Register · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 1

WHEN the Great War finiihcd tome people thought the work of the Red Cross was also ended, and that its activities should [?]. They we re reckoning without the awful aftermath of…

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Children’s Column (From the “Young Soldier,”) My Pal Rover

The South Coast Register · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 5

WHEN my upper lip is [?] And a tear gets in my eye, And the fellows that I'm scared of Have tried to make me cry;…

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The Soldiers’ Ball

The Bega District News · Monday 2 August 1926 · page 2

The annual ball of the Bega branch of the Returned Soldiers. League was held in the Lyric on Wednesday night last, and was one of the most…

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Found a [?] Soldiers League Badge

The South Coast Register · Friday 6 August 1926 · page 7

[?] barracker at [?] football match on Saturday, [?] a 1820 league ba[?]ge, will call at the “Register”…

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Perils of the Next War

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1926 · page 2

Every year adds io the scientific horrors that big nations are planning to let loose in the next war. Scott, a Californian inventor, promises to…

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Limbless Soldiers

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 18 August 1926 · page 4

The Limbless Soldiers showed by the conduct of their Great Austral No. 2 last year that an art union can be organised to prove of great benefit…

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War Graves of British Soldiers

The South Coast Register · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 1

Colonel Hyman (President of State Branch R.S.S.I.L.A. ) at the Complimentary Smoke Social on Saturday Night quoted the following from the “London Times” : The land for cemeteries has been given perpetuity in each former…

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The Proposed Soldiers' Memorial. Let Something Be Done

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 1 September 1926 · page 2

Just after the war, people started a Voluntary Workers' Association, a body that [?] good work in providing several homes and…

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Kiama Soldiers Memorial Arch. (To the Editor)

The South Coast Register · Friday 17 September 1926 · page 5

Sir.- The men whose memory we comm[?] by meeting this arch gave be Australia a [?] ment to do all that in their power…

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If War Came. Control of Pacific. Oil or Impotence. Iii

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1926 · page 6

A modern war could not be carried on for twenty-four hours without petrol. Yet in time of war—either a was upon our own coasts or war else…

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War and Peace

The South Coast Register · Friday 15 October 1926 · page 2

ONE of Nowra’s most active public women is Mrs. Hewlett, wife of Mr. Hewlett (chemist). As a war worker Mrs. Hewlett's energies…

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Limbless Soldiers

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 27 October 1926 · page 7

The Limbless Soldiers' Art Union, the Great Austral No. 3, closes on November 11th, Armistice Day, and it is a fitting opportunity for the…

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Soldiers' Club Sensation

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1926 · page 2

We (Yass "Courier") bear that consequent on certain statements made regarding the Soldiers' Club, the police waited on the secretary of…

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Oil War. (To the Editor)

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 3 November 1926 · page 5

Sir,—"Foreign companies have not merely been content with bleeding our country white ... they have become so certain of themselves as to…

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Limbless Soldiers

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 3 November 1926 · page 4

The Limbless Soldiers' Art Union, the Great Austral No. 3, closes on November llth, Armistice Day, and it is a fitting opportunity for the…

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Armistice Night. Reunion of Returned Soldiers. a Happy Gathering

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1926 · page 3

About 40 returned soldiers of the A.I.F. met at West's Crown Theatre on Thursday night to celebrate the signing of the Armistice, which…

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Soldiers’ Re-Union

The Bega District News · Monday 15 November 1926 · page 2

The annual re-union banquet of the Bega branch of the Returned Soldiers' League was held in the School of Arts on Thursday night…

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Limbless Soldiers

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 17 November 1926 · page 7

The announcement of the approach of the drawing date for the Limbless Soldiers' Great Austral No. 3 Art Union should be regarded by those…

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