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The wars & local soldiers, 1921

4,638 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 232

The Soldiers' Memorial

Nepean Times · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 5

A meeting of the Soldiers' Memorial Committee was held on Monday evening. A cheque for was received from the sports committee, being…

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Just on £8,000,000 Gratuity Payments Scattered Soldiers

The Sun · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 8

Nearly £8,000,000 has been issued in this State in the form of cash payments and bonds in respect of the war gratuity…

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Soldiers' Memorial Maitland

The Sun · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 6

The Department of Local Government has declined to recommend for approval to the Minister the design for a soldiers' memorial submitted by…

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His "Merry Xmas" Soldier Who Asked £15 in Vain Read to the End to Learn How He Solved the Question

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 1

Charles Kilner Firth was employed as a farrier at Harden when war was declared. On January 23, 1915, he enlisted with the A.L.H. After 422 days'…

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Sailors' and Soldiers' Parliament More Successful Diggers of the Thirteenth

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 23

The thirteenth battalion would never admit to failure in the field, and Louis Moss, who was a member of that immortal unit, has carried its traditions…

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Soldiers' Questions

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 23

C.S.J. (Tamworth): Forward an application through local Repat. Committee. They should know the circumstances of your case well…

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Soldiers' Congress

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The Australian delegation to the Returned Soldiers' Congress, to be held in South Africa next month, will comprise Captain G. J. C. Dyett, president of the…

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Wool and War Debt

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1921 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday.—It is reported that the British Government has purchased from the South African Government 100,000 bales of wool for £2,000,000,…

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Shall We Forget? War Trophies and the Future Generations

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1921 · page 13

The mothers and wives and sisters, too, will never forget the war as long as pain fights pride. They do not need a war museum or trophies in the streets…

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War's Best Substitute League of Nations Canada Hopeful VANCOUVER, January 21

The Sun · Sunday 23 January 1921 · page 1

A message from New York states that Mr. N. W. Rowell, formerly President of the Canadian Privy Council and Canadian delegate to Geneva, in…

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Bravest Nurse Australian Girl Married Distinguished War Record LONDON, January 21

The Sun · Sunday 23 January 1921 · page 1

Miss Gene Boyton, of the Australian Red Cross, described by the London press as the bravest nurse in the war, was married to-day to Mr. Harold…

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Smuggling Unlimited Vast Armies Busy in Germany Irregular War with Customs Amazing Scenes on Frontier

The Sun · Sunday 23 January 1921 · page 13

Smuggling in Germany has developed from an art into an industry, from the skilled trickery of an adept few into the mechanical toll of a laborious…

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Sailors and Soldiers Education of Soldiers' Children An Ambitious Scheme Outlined

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1921 · page 20

The new repatriation scheme which will provide higher education for the children of deceased and totally incapacitated soldiers' children, is now taking a…

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Has Someone Blundered? the Case of Harry Fox. Military Medicoes and Their Methods. A Soldier's Blindness & the Cause Thereof The Need for Further Investigation

Truth · Sunday 23 January 1921 · page 1

Harry Fox, formerly a hairdresser, a native of Auckland, New Zealand, the son of a soldier, 40 years of age, end single, seems to "Truth" to be a man…

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Anzac Day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 6

The State council of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League has decided to request the State Government to have April 25 proclaimed a public holiday, and also to…

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Casualties. Boy Seriously Wounded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 10

Lawrence Sharratt, aged 15½, living in Har[?] row-road. Rockdale, was seriously injured yesterday afternoon through an accidental explosion of a Winchester rif[?]e which he was…

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War Service Homes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 8

The secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League, Mr. R. Hastings, states in a letter that the action of the members of…

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War Risk Premiums

The Sun · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 5

By the big majority of 40,120 votes to 6494, a resolution framed by Mr. Gerald R. Campbell, advocating the refund of war-risk premiums, was…

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Prussian Militarism Not Yet Quite Dead. Bernhardi's Scheme for Another War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 8

The tiger of Prussian militarism dies hard, and if there still be in the world any belief that it will repent on its deathbed General von Bernhard[?]'s latest book, "The War of the…

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War Gratuity. Payments in New South Wales. Valued at Nearly £8,000,000

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 8

According to a statement issued on behalf of the military district finance officer, at Victoria Barracks on Saturday, cash payments and bonds for soldiers' war gratu[?]ties have been…

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