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The wars & local soldiers, 1921

4,638 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 232

Honoring the Soldiers With Machine Guns and Things YOUNG

Evening News · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 6

Some of the villages under the administration of the Bu[?]gong Shire Council are [?] difficulty in having who memorials erected because the…

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Soldiers' Memorial. Wentworth Falls

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 7

About 200 people assembled on Saturday afternoon, in spite of heavy rain, to witness the laying of the foundation-stone of the Wentworth Falls permanent memorial to…

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Soldier Teachers. Mr. Mutch Denies Charges

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 6

The Minister for Education (Mr. Mutch) yesterday replied to charges recently made to the effect that soldier teachers had been prejudiced by having gone on service during…

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Homes for Soldiers. Ministerial Policy. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 7

For some considerable time the Housing Commissioner has been confronted with the difficulty created by over-zealous agents and vendors, committing soldiers to the purchase…

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Soldiers' Settlements Formulating the Report Hard-worked Judge

The Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 8

Mr. Justice Street (Chief Judge in Equity), instead of enjoying the law vacation, together with the majority of his fellow-judges of the Supreme…

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Soldier Teachers. Departmental Treatment. Mr. Mutch Emphatic

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 9

In a letter printed in these columns yesterday it was asserted that in the case of married soldier teachers the difference between civil and military pay was not made up by the Education…

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Maimed Soldiers' Passes

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 8

Tho Limbless and Maimed Soldiers' Association has been advised that the Premier has approved that those men who, though retaining the eye, have lost all the sight in one eye…

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War Service Timber

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 9

An advertisement elsewhore from the War Service Homes Commission invites tenders for the working and supply of 12,000,000. feet of sawn and dressed pine per annum, and…

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Members of Federal Parliament Who Served in the War

The Sun · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 8

Back Row: G. J. Bell, C.M.G., D.S.O., R. J. Burchell, M.C.; W. M. Fleming; W. M. Marks; S. M. Bruce, M.C.; A. Wienholt, D.S.O., M.C.: W. L. Duncan; and E. C. G. Page Front Row: C. W. C. Marr, D.S.O., W.K. Bolton, C.B.E., V.D.; J. Rowell, C.B; Sir T. W. Glasgow, K.C.B., C.M.G,, D.S.O.; Sir G. de L. Ryrie, K.C.M.G., C.B., V.D.; E. A. Drake-Brockman C.B., C.M.G. D.S.O.; D. C. Cameron C.M.G., D.S.O.; and H. S. Foll. Inset are G. M. Foster, top left-hand side; A. Hay, bottom left-hand side; J. H. Lister, top right-hand side; Sir C. F. Cox, C.B., C.M.G., bottom right-hand side; and H. E. Elliott. C.B…

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War Service Homes. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 12

Sir,—Letters have been published lately regarding the War Service Homes Commissioner's decision to buy no more ready-built homes for soldiers, and the inconvenience and…

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Science. Lessons of the War. Problems for Australia. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 12

At the Science Congress to-day most public interest centred round the discussion in the physics and chemistry sections upon "The Application of Physical and Chemical Science…

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War Criminals Imperial Court Acts Three Engineers Sentenced LONDON, Tuesday Night

The Sun · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 1

A Berlin message says that the first three cases of the war criminals were tried at a specially allocated Imperial Court at Leipzig…

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War on Disease. World-wide Battle. Triumphs of Science. Unobtrusive Visitor's Story

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 9

A tall, well-poised man, with a tanned complexion, large rimless glasses, and a massive grey soft hat, arrived unobtrusively by the Maknra yesterday. To the right of him were…

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Public Service Soldiers Work of Year

Evening News · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 7

[?] first annual general meeting of the New South Waives Commonwealth Public Service sub-section of the Returned Soldiers' League was held at [?] soldiers…

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At Allies' Demand German Soldiers' Trial PARIS. Tuesday Evening

Evening News · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 1

A Berlin message sates that the Supreme Tribunals it Leipsig have begun the trials of German Soldiers, the punishment of whom was…

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Soldiers' Enterprises. Proposed Woollen Mills

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 11

Speaking last night at a meeting of the Commonwealth Public Servants' sub-section of the R.S. and S.I.L., Mr. Marr, M.P., criticised the tardiness of the State executive of…

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Soldiers' Children. Education Scheme

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 11

The scheme for the higher education of children of deceased and totally incapacitated soldiers recently formulated by the Repatriation Commission, was advanced another stage…

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Legal Costs Soldiers' Settlements Bill Estimated at £8000

The Sun · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 8

The legal costs arising out of the protracted inquiry into soldier settlements administration before Mr. Justice Street are expected to be…

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Sick Soldiers Removal From Randwick Special Treatment Urged

The Sun · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 9

The Randwick Military Hospital is to be closed on March 1, and from that date all soldiers requiring treatment will be transferred to the Royal Prince…

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Bivouac of the Dead Heroes We Knew Not "An Australian Soldier"

The Sun · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 6

The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few…

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