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The wars & local soldiers, 1922

4,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 204

Women War Workers Suggested Memorial

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1922 · page 3

The board of directors of Sydney Hospital admit that at the moment the sleeping accommodation for the nursing staff and sisters is not only discreditable to the hospital, but…

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Hun War Criminal Escapes From Hamburg Gaol Berlin

Evening News · Tuesday 31 January 1922 · page 4

Lient [?] sentencal at the sentenced for winking the [?] castle, escaped from Hamburg Gaol, with the assistance of the…

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The Soldiers. New League Suggested. to Embrace All Existing Bodies

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1922 · page 9

With the object of uniting in one organisation all bodies interested in the welfare of ex-service men and their relations and dependents, estimated to number about…

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Public Servants. Temporary Hands. Preference for Soldiers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1922 · page 11

A large number of the temporary employees in the New South Wales departments of the Commonwealth Public Service belleve that their services are to be dispensed with and…

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Welfare of Ex-soldiers." Questions for Candidates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1922 · page 10

The New South Wales executive of the Returned Soldiers" League has agreed to a proposal that sub-branch officials in the various electorates should ask all candidates in the…

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Gift of Land. for Soldiers' Memorial. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1922 · page 8

The Rev. P. Hope and Messrs, Hawkes (treasurer) and Wade (secretary of the local Returned Soldiers' League) walted on Mr. Chas. Hoskins in regard to a gift of land for…

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Utility or Monument? Anzac Memorial Controversy

Construction and Local Government Journal · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 6

"As in all questions of great general interest, controversy speedily arises and the discussion centres round two ideas:— (1) The purely monumental work which…

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Women's War Memorial

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 23

IN connection with the proposed memorial to be creeled at Woolloomooloo by the wives and mothers of the soldiers. Dame Margaret Davidson has written a special appeal from the State Government House. The…

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The War Service Homes

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 3

The Progress Association tackles most of the matters it is connected with in an undoubted business-like manner. Recently it induced the War Service Homes…

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Prince of Wales' Nurses' Home War Memorial for Sydney Hospital

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 12

The Lady Mayoress (Mrs. W. P. M'Elhone) presided at a meeting held in the Mayoress's parlor, Town Hall, yesterday morning for the purpose of organising a committee tor the…

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Egg War. Campaign in Sussex-street. Victory for Low Prices

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 13

A little trial of strength has just been concluded by wholesale dealers in eggs, but yesterday peace again relgued in the egg market in Sussex-street…

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Land Armaments Question of Reduction Feeling in Japan War Office Opposition TOKIO

The Sun · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 3

The question of the reduction of land armaments was squarely before the Diet to-day, when the Kokuminto resolution, calling for drastic cuts,…

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Wives and Mothers Of New South Welsh Soldiers. To the Editor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 2

Sir.— We wish to erect a memorial fountain by the wharf gates at Woolloomooloo through which the voluntary soldiers of Australia filed as they passed…

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Soldiers' Wives Disgusted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 14

At a meeting of the Sailors and Soldiers' Mothers, Wives, and Widows' Association, at the Oxford Hall, Liverpool-street, yesterday afternoon, a motion was carried expressing…

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Flinders Soldiers" Memorial

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 40

This memorial (which was recently unve[?]d by Captain Bruce, M.C., M.H.R.) has been erected on a prominent headland at the entrance to Westernport Bay, Victoria, from which one of the most beautiful views of sea and landscape in Australia may be obtained. In construction it is unique, the base being of fine axed bluestone, while the superstructure is formed of selected waterworn stones faced with…

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Ulster's War Record

Watchman · Thursday 2 February 1922 · page 1

Over 75,000 Ulstermen voluntarily enlisted. Ulster gained 8 Victoria Crosses and 2410 other honors…

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War Memorial Hospital

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1922 · page 3

Members of the newly-formed Paddington Woollahra branch of the Women's Guild of the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley, held an enthusiastic meeting in the Jersey Road, Congregational School .Hall yesterday, the…

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Plague. War Against Rats. 39,000 Destroyed in Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 February 1922 · page 9

Another favourable report concerning the young woman admitted to the Coast Hospital as a plague patient was issued last night, when she was stated to be doing very well…

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Ludendorff's Strategy End of War Failure Berlin, January 31

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1922 · page 6

Herr Schiedemann, in the Reichstag. hotly attacked the Monarchists, militarists, and pan- Germans, and quoted Professor Delbrueok'a book, which is to he published shortly, and…

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To Prevent War Unions' Plan to Strike LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Sun · Thursday 2 February 1922 · page 6

Undaunted by past experiences, officials of the International Federation of Trade Unions have drawn up a scheme for the ratification of the…

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