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The wars & local soldiers, 1917

17,789 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 250

N.S.W. Soldiers Reported Wounded

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 17

Pte. F. T. Markham OF DULWICH HILL. Pte. C. W. Ray OF LEICHHARDT…

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Wounded Six Times

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 14

Corporal W. H. Huddart, writing to his father (Mr. H. J. Huddart), of Gowrie-street, Erskineville, from No. 1 Southern General Hospital, Birmingham, says: --…

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Anzac Buffet in Sydney

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 14

When officially opening the Domain Anzac Buffet in Sydney on January 6, Mr. Justice Ferguson (chairman of the Amelioration Committee of the Australia Day Fund), said that if there…

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Wounded. Private L. Nesbitt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 12

Mrs. Nesbitt, of Newington-road, Marrickville, has been informed that her husband, Private Leslie Nesbitt, is in the Military Hospital at Chatham, England, suffering…

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Australian Forces. Distinction for Wounded

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 13

Some little time ago an army order was issued in England authorising wounded soldiers to wear a perpendicular gold stripe on the arm for each occasion on which they were wounded…

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Anzac Parade. Re-naming Randwick Road

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 6

"The time appears opportune to allot a suitable name for the improved Randwick Road," stated the Lord Mayor in a minute submitted to the works committee of the City Council…

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Anzac-parade. Road Through Moore Park

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 13

In a minute to the works committee of the City Council, which met yesterday afternoon, the Lord Mayor (Alderman Meagher) suggested that the time was opportune for the…

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The War

Evening News · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 4

Rulgaria, it is cable, is willing to make peace. But, of course, it has to be the kind of peace that Bulgaria wants, one which would allow her to keep the territory she has invaded,…

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War Questions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 13

"Q.Z." (Neutral Bay).—Keep to the old address. "Soldier's Wife" (Petersham).—The amount, £4 6s 4d per fortnight, is all you are entitled to. "Anxious" (North Sydney) and "Faith" (Bankstown).—…

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Distinguished War Service

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 6

INVERELL, Monday.--Corporal Edwin A. Loose, son of Mr. A. [?]. Leese. of Arrawatta, who enlisted at Inverell in the Light Horse in August, 1914, and who has been through the…

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Query Club. War

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 34

NEXT OF KIN.—J.R.C.: Write to the Base Records Office, Melbourne, for information regarding next of kin. RECRUITING.—"Wagga" asks if farmers' sons…

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The War Loan

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 14

The Director-General of Recruiting has, at the request of the Commonwealth Treasurer, approved of the New South Wales (Recruiting Committee assisting in the raising of the fourth…

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Few Wounded Returning. Must Go Back to the Trenches

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 2

Sydney "Sunday Times" says: "Most of the private military homes in and around Sydney are being closed. The reason for this is that wounded soldiers…

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Back From the War : New Zealand Soldiers at Rose Hall, Sydney

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 14

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Anzac Stories Nerve Testing Expeditions Night Raids Upon German Trenches

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 2

Although no operations of great and outstanding importance have taken place on the French front for the last three weeks or so, violent artillery [?]uels are…

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Churches and the War

Evening News · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 4

Rev. [?] Rivett writes:—With much that your correspondent, Mr. Fred Redd, writes, [?] and also appreciate the spirit of [?] which his leter discloses. Regret as much…

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War Diet and Health

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 11

It Is one of the regrettable features of war that non-combatants frequently suffer greater hardships than those actually experienced by some of the men in the field. When…

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War News in Brief

The Sun · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 1

The "Lokal Anzelger" says that the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister (Count Lozernin) has conferred with the Imperial Chancellor (Dr. Bethmann Hollweg) on the…

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War Loan. Official Appeal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 10

In an official appeal on behalf of the war loan it is stated that "while the recruiting committees are making a strong appeal to the manhood of the country for…

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War Issue—no. Cxxviii

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 1

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