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The wars & local soldiers, 1920

6,021 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250

Ex-imperial Soldiers. Prospects in This State. British Visitor Impressed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 10

The Premier has received a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Dodge, D.S.O., of the 16th Sussex Regiment, who has toured New South Wales for the purpose of investigating the…

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Australian War Photographs

Sunday Times · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 18

A striking selection of Australian official war photographs are at present being exhibited in Sydney in the shop windows of Messrs. Farmer and Co., Gowing…

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Women's War Work Soldiers' Club News Mothers Wanted Balmain Red Cross

The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 14

Mercy is truly twice blest, and in this instance both the givers and the receivers are happy. A number of members of the Balmain Red Cross…

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Loyal Indian State's Handsome War Gift London

Sunday Times · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 1

The State of Jodhpur, in India, has presented the Government with eight lakhs of rupees towards the expenses of the war…

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Australian Leaders Ii.--john Monash Hard-Headed Organiser of Victory the Business Man in War

The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 3

When Sir Ian Hamilton was in Australia on his official inspection of our military organisation a year or two before the war he attended some big…

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A New Business for Maimed Soldiers Fruit arid Vegetable Mart in Lower George Street

Sunday Times · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 4

Dr. Arthur, M.L.A. put a proposal be-fore a recent meeting of the Maimed and Limbless Soldiers' Association with the object of giving profitable…

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Soldier's Badge Found

Sunday Times · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 4

A soldier's badge has been handed in at this office, and will be returned to the owner on application to the Sydney Times. An effort to restore the badge…

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For Sailors & SOLDIERS Sunday Times Information Bureau the Sad Case of an Imperial Reservist

Sunday Times · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 5

More than once we have referred in these columns to the sad case of an Imperial Reservist, who, stricken with a mortal disease, is passing his time in a…

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Culcairn Huns Diggers Resent Candidature of Internees for Shire Elections. Soldiers' Bitter Feeling. Culcairn

Sunday Times · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 2

Every corner of the Riverina is watching closely the course that the returned soldiers are taking to prevent the elec-tion of Hermann A. Paech and Johann…

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Nationalist Candidates The Soldiers' Federation

Sunday Times · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 2

Although a number of Nationalist candidates have been selected, the list is by no means complete, and various negotiations are in progress with other…

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Returned Soldier Shot Pitt-street Disturbance

Sunday Times · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 2

A disturbance took place last night in Pitt-street about 7 o'clock, in the vicinity of the People's Palace, as a result of which Edward Kempton, a…

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CRICKET A.I.F. v. VICTORIA Soldiers in Strong Position-Willis Bats Ably MELBOURNE

Sunday Times · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 9

The weather broke fine for the resump-tion of play, when Winning and Trenerry began batting to McDonald and Armstrong. Trenerry only added 3 to…

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Soldier Shot Mysterious Bullet

The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 2

Henry Kempton, 25, a returned soldier, was admitted to Sydney Hospital last night suffering from a bullet wound in the left arm…

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Soldiers Lead By 195 Runs in Match Against Victoria Willis's Fine Century

The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 9

The A.I.F. team, in their first innings, scored 311--195 runs in advance of Victoria's first innings score. Willis's 111, in 162 minutes,…

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For Maimed Soldiers Co-operative Business Idea Fruit and Vegetable Mart

The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 4

At a meeting of the Maimed and Limbless Soldiers' Association Dr. Arthur, M.L.A., laid before it a proposal which would, he believed, if carried…

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War Memoirs of Tirpitz Biting Criticism of German Pofiticians-What the Navy Might Have Done the Author of the Submarine Campaign

Sunday Times · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 18

The memoirs of Grand-Admiral von Tirpitz gave so little satisfaction in Germany that when they were published there the issue was prohibited. The…

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War Gratuity. Deceased Soldiers' Estates. Method of Payment

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--In the absence of definite details from the Prime Minster, speculation has been aroused as to the manner in which the war gratuity will be paid…

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Our Greatest War Trophy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 8

This gun has been brought to Australia by the Dongarra, due to commence unloading in Sydney on Thursday next…

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Fine War Trophy. German Gun for Sydney

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The 28-centimetre German railway gun captured by the Australian troops near Harbonnleres in August, 1918, has been brought to Melbourne by the…

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War Loan Bonds Sellers Warned Against Imposition

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 4

Complaints have reached the Commonwealth Treasury of the public having been exploited by certain persons calling themselves "brokers" and…

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