Our Soldiers
Mr Alwyn A T Pringle, son of Lieut-Col. A T Pringle, of Plumpton, has enlisted in the Field Artillery Reinforcements, and is in the camp at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1916
21,398 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 250
Soldiers' Letters
Private Tom Lee writing from St Tohn's Hospital, Sliema, Malta, under date October 26, states that he is in the hospital with yellow-jaundice…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Soldier's Letter to a District Lad
Master Samuel McLean, of Emu Plains, is in receipt of a letter from Trooper W S Kelk (of Dubbo) mentioned in last issue as having written…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commence Our Enthralling New Australian Serial Story To-day. the Eagle of Peace. a Tale of Love, Invention, and War. (All Rights Reserved) Synopsis of Opening Chapters
The story opens with the enlistment of Pat Argus a fine type of young Australian manhood. Prior to his departure for the [?] wins the hand of Beatrice Harley…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Suspense in Balkans Enemy Advance in Force Salonica to Be Attacked Heavy Fighting Expected Russian Guns and Shells Rain of Fire on Czernovitz 525th Day of the War
French airmen report indications of an imminent attack on Salonica by a large force of Germans and Bulgarians. The Allies are well equipped with munitions and supplies of every kind. Heavy artillery is arriving…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Life in London and Thereabout. (Chronicled by Sir Henry Lucy.) Schomberg McDonnell.—A Cross-Channel Passage.—Public Feeling About the war.— The Inns of Court. WESTMINSTER, Nov. 20
While at work in the trenches last Sunday a fragment of shrapnel hit Sir Schomberg McDonncll on the head, inflicting a wound reported to be grave. For 20 years, dating…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →How Can Britain Find Five Million Pounds a Day? Political Economists on the Problems of Paying for the War Three-quarters of National Income Required Profitable State Enterprises Suggested as a Means of Relieving the Pressure on the Community
The great pressing topic of the moment is national economy. It is admitted that Unless we as a nation, drastically cut down our expenditure, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fourteen More British Super-dreadnoughts Additions to the Navy Since the Additions to the Navy Since the Beginning of the War the Fleet That Is Ever Growing in Numbers and Power Secret of the Dogger Bank Battle Given in Detail, with Reasons Why Germany Hides
For the first time-since the war began we are permitted to give an indication of the new battleships and battle-cruisers which have been added to the Grand Fleet in this period. They number FOURTEEN—all super-Dreadnoughts, and all of them will be completed this month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fruit and Vegetables for Wounded Soldiers
The following is a list of those who have given fruit, vegetables, &c., to the above fund to date:--Mesdames Charleston, Normanhurst…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Canberra or Anzac?
The correspondent of The Advertiser who last Monday suggested the substitution of Anzac for Canberra as the name of the Federal capital must be delighted with the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Uniform From Wounded
Sir,—Can you imagine any treatment more hurtful than, to demand our brave lads to throw off their uniforms and don the dungaree, without giving any reason for such a course ?…
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The living go, but leave behind their dead, To mark on alien land The limit of the tide that ran so red Across the Turkish sand…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Entertaining Anzac V.C.'s
A fine subject illustrating the A.N.A. entertaining our Anzac heroes in London has just been received by the Waddington management. The following interesting scenes are…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →When the Boys Come Back from the War the State Must Not Forget the War-worn and the Wounded People Responsible Are We Getting Ready ?
The war is not going to be decided in the Balkans. It is being decided now, in France, and Flanders—and in Russia. Watch Russia, and let us talk about when the boys come home…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Profit on War Socks
Jones, Labor M.L.C. for Melbourne East, the other day quoted General M'Cay to Honorary Minister Bill Baillieu, who represents the Peacock Ministry in the Council…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →London in War-time
Louis Raemaekers, a Dutch cartoonist, who is written of by London "Weekly Dispatch" as "undoubtedly the greatest cartoonist in the world," has this to say of what he saw in…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Our Wounded at Randwick Certain Questions of Administration General Satisfaction
A complaint that there is unnecessary delay in the issue of passes to men allowed leave from Randwick Military Hospital having been addressed to this paper, the matter has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rugby Union and the War
The above photo demonstrates very clearly the response made by the leaders in the Rugby Union. The eight men comprised the forward division of the State Fifteen which met New Zealand at the Sports Ground just before the great war commenced. Six of the eight—75 per cent—are on active service or preparing to go. The other…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Twice a Hero Soldier Who Over-enlisted Fremantle
Michael O'Donnell, 27, a fine-looking, soldierly young giant of Irish extraction, has fallen foul of our, military regulations. Michael O'Donnell has been known for some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Play Written to Show Strikers Their Error "War Mates" the Work of a Territorial Private "Shall We Stop Work While Our Brothers Are Being Mown Down ?" "Tom Was Only a Territorial—-a Non-union Man" The Message: "The War Mates of England, like the Soldiers at the Front, Stand by Their King."
A MAN who is cure of getting back to his job, if he wins back to his health, is Private de Harrel, of the London Scottish, who, though incapacitated by deafness in one ear, managed to get to the front. He is a Charterhouse boy—-and a Cambridge man—and in his civil life was a solicitor. For some time he…
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