War Service Committee
A meeting of the executive committee was held on Wednesday evening lest for the purpose of completing arrangements for the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1916
505 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 9 of 26
Sayings of the War. Mr. Lloyd George
"He is of the few who know that the devil goes under an alias, but his real name is inertia."—"Observer."…
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I have been on the stricken field. I have been in tho trenches. I have been under fire. I have seen the boys over there—the splendid boys who in France and in Flanders are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. Western Front. the Verdun Battle Violent Cannondade. Germans Use Tear Shells. London, April 12
A French communique states:- The German, using liquid fire,[?] Mort Homme from Crow's Woad . They were repulced expert in the east,…
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Attention it directed to the notice in our advertising columns announcing the United Memorial Services to be conducted in the Anglican Church on Tuesday. April 25th, at…
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Recent enlistments at Goulburn contain the following names:-Ernest Arthur Hatter, Excier: Lealie E. Royston, Bowral; Eric J. M. Mckay, Frederick J. Reynolds, Moss…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alpine Railway Workers. Send-off to Soldiers
An entertainment as a send-off to four members of the railway workers was held at the five miles camp, Alpine, on Saturday evening, 10th inst, the guests of the evening…
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A combined memorial service will be held (as advertised) in the Centennial hall, Moss Vale, on Tuesday, 25th April, under the auspices of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News
It is reported from Amsterdam that German newspaper hint at the abandonment of attempts to capture Verdun. They declare that the…
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Previous total £263 3 8 The £90 remitted to the N.B. Relief Fund was for the 3 months ending 30th April last, not March,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Eastern Front. Russian Offensive in the Dvinsk Region Petrograd April 15
A [?] communique says:— The German offensive between Lake was twice buried back, the enemy abandoning a large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anzac Day. BOWRAL
Final arrangements for the combined service on Tuesday next in the Anglican Church are well in [?], the Rev. T. H. Distin Morgan, B. A., and the Rev. J. Hulme making…
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Trebizond has been captured by the Russians in co operation with the Black sea fleets. The rapidity of the operations was a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Books
"Only two books have so far appeared that I shall desire to keep when the war is over one Buchan's 'History,' and "The First Hundred Thousand."'—C.K.S. in "The Sphere.'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Shopping This Christmas
"It does rather bring home the horrors of war when one has to spend days in the steel and pigskin departments choosing things for Michael in the Dardanelles, and Tony in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sayings of the War. Ambulance Delvers
"A man who has been wounded three times told me that the difference between a man and a woman driver of an ambulance was off to the credit of the latter. I would a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Liquor for Soldiers. Railway Refreshment Rooms
It has been represented to the military authorities that railway refreshment room in the country districts are supplying refreshments…
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