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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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Poppy Day, 1929. (By R. F. Chapman, organising secretary Soldiers’ Poppy Day Appeal

The Bega District News · Thursday 3 October 1929 · page 3

People often remark, “I see the returned soldiers are asking for funds; they are always asking for something; what do they do with the money?”…

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Soldiers' Memorial Fund

The Nowra Leader · Friday 4 October 1929 · page 1

A meeting of subscribers to the Shoalhaven Soldiers' Memorial Fund was held at the Nowra School of Arts on Monday night, and after a long…

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Limbless Soldiers

The South Coast Register · Tuesday 8 October 1929 · page 1

Every year Poppy Day Appeal is made to the public fur funds to be used for the benefit of returned sailors, soldiers and their dependents…

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Limbless Soldiers

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 October 1929 · page 8

The need of provision being made for the badly disabled soldiers of the Great War was recognised soon after our men came back. The Limbless…

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Limbless Soldiers

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 October 1929 · page 7

The event of 1929 to Limbless Soldiers may mean the event of a lifetime to the person who wins one of the chief prizes in the Great Austral…

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War on Mosquitoes

The Bega District News · Thursday 24 October 1929 · page 6

Although all local governments, municipal and shire councils, are at the considering means of combating the mosquito during the…

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Limbless Soldiers

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 November 1929 · page 3

The event of 1929 to Limbless Soldiers may mean the event of a lifetime to the person who wins one of the chief prises in the Great Austral…

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Soldiers’ Poppy Day Appeal Kangaroo Valley Diggers Concert

The South Coast Register · Tuesday 5 November 1929 · page 1

The organisers of the diggers’ concert lo be held in the School of Arts, Kangaroo Valley, on Friday night next, November 8, in a final…

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Limbless Soldiers

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 November 1929 · page 4

Butts of tickets in the Limbless Soldiers' Great Austral Art Union must be returned to O. Beyers, Box 3446 R.G.P.O., or 19 Bligh-street, Sydney, by…

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Returned Soldiers’ Re-Union

The Bega District News · Thursday 14 November 1929 · page 8

The annual re-union banquet of the Bega branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League was held at the Central Hotel on Saturday night. There was a good…

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Limbless Soldiers

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 November 1929 · page 1

Butts of tickets in the Limbless Soldiers' Great Austral Art Union must be returned to O. Beyers, Box 3446 R, G.P.O., or 19 Bligh-street, Sydney, by…

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Shoalhaven Soldiers' Memorial

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 4 December 1929 · page 6

At a meeting of the executive committee of the Shoalhaven Soldiers' Memorial, on Monday afternoon, the tender of mr. G. Cook, Windsor, was…

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Numba School Unveiling Anzac Picture

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 18 December 1929 · page 5

A good muster of children and parents assembled at the Numba Public School on Friday night to witness the unveiling of an historic picture…

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This “Sex-war” Business. Why I Champion the Men

The Bega District News · Thursday 19 December 1929 · page 5

There is a sex-war afoot—oh, yes Pick up a newspaper or a magazine, and nine cases out of ten you will find an article, by some woman…

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