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The wars & local soldiers, 1919

11,879 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 250

Soldier in Politics. Trial Sought. Appeal to the Electors

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 5

Knowledge and sincerity, according to Lieutenant Cortis, a returned soldier, are essentials in the member of Parliament. In the course of an explanation of the…

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Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Treatment of Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 5

The secretary of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (Mr. William Epps) states that many people are unaware that the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital is a military institution. One…

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Disaffected Soldiers. London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 5

The "Daily Express" states that it understands that at the eleventh hour the authorities have decided to stop the granting of leave to time-expired soldiers and substitute quicker…

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Dissatisfied Soldiers. London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 5

To-day 56 lorries, filled with soldiers from Kempton Park, drove past the War Office. The men left the lorries and assembled in the War Office quadrangle. They demanded to see…

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Soldiers' Graves. Work of the Commission. London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 5

At a meeting of the Imperial War Graves Commission, at which Mr. W. H. Long presided, all the British and oversea representatives were present…

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Soldiers' Certificates

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 6

It has been decided by the North Sydney Council to issue, on behalf of the citizens of the municipality, an illuminated certificate as a mark of recognition and appreciation of…

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Mary Anderson at Work: by Rev. John Talbot Smith, Ll.d. How War Brought a Great Actress Back to the Stage

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 3

It is twenty-five years since Mary Anderson left the stage, at the meridian of her career and her triumph, and retired to home life in EngLand,…

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Welcome Home

The Propeller · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 1

Trumpeter Maurice Mulready, 7th Light Horse (an original Anzac), who has just returned after four years fighting in Gallipoli,…

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Returned Men Want Preference

The Sun · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 1

This morning a deputation from the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Shipping and Wharf Workers' Union marched through the streets of the city to the Chief Secretary's Office, where they urged upon Mr. Fuller that returned men should be given preference of employment. The picture shows the procession in Bridge-street…

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Anzac Memorial Building. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 7

The committee of the Victorian branch of the Returned Sailors und Soldiers' Imperial League has completed the preliminary arrangements for the purchase of the City Club…

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Mrs. Digger Anzac Brides Arrive Scenes at Woolloomooloo To-day

Evening News · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 4

Mrs. Danger arrived this morning [?] Anzac's wives, and [?] and bearly Diggerettes Wild cheera from the brown human fringe on the swimming…

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The Latest War Cables

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 1

"Farmer and Settles" Office, Friday Moon, GERMANY.—A telegram to the London "Times" states that several hundred persons were killed in the street fighting in Bertin on Monday and Tuesday. Eichhorn (the former Chief of Police) and Liebknecht are commanding the revoletionsits from the police headquarters. Libknecbt boasts that nearly all the soldiers in sad around Berlis…

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Military Promotions. Meritorious War Service

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday--The following promotions in the Australian military forces, made for "specially meritorious service during the war" are gazetted to-day:…

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Extensions to the War Chest Club

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 6

The hon. secretary of the Citizens' War Chest Fund advises that £10,000 has been cabled to London for extensions to the War Chest Club,…

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War Material. Peace Utilisation. London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 5

The Government proposes to utilise a large quantity of light railway material now in France for connecting the country districts of Britain with the railway main lines, and thus…

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V.c. Heroes of the War

The Mirror · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 3

During the four years of the war no fewer than 474 Victoria Crosses have been awarded for deeds of valor. In the first year of war 83 Crosses were awarded,…

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Why Wilhelm Made War Wanted the Throne of England

The Mirror · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 5

Among the reasons given for the war is one view which, up to the present, has not been publicly advanced, yet it carries with h a semblance of reliability…

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Of Interest to Women War Work and Social News

Evening News · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 7

Lady Hordera, "Babworth House" Dar[?] her family, spreading a [?] of the Soldiers'…

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War Honours. Order of British Empire. London, Jan. 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 7

Hundreds of names of men and women on whom the Order of the British Empire has been bestowed for services rendered in connection with the war…

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