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The wars & local soldiers, 1922

4,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 204

Butter Pool Wanted. Soldier-Settlers' [?]

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 9

At a conference of returned solidersettlers in Melbourne last week doubts as to the future of the dairy industry and other branches of rural production…

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Depth Charges Returned Soldier's Idea

Evening News · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 1

Among the numerous suggestions which are being made for safeguarding the beaches from the visits of man-eating sharks, is one from constable Flynn, of…

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Drought and Loss on Sheep. Cause Ex-soldier's Bankruptcy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 6

"I enlisted in August, 1914, and went to Gallipoli and France. I was wounded, and invalided to England in 1915. In 1916 I married in England, and my wife and I came out…

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A Post-war Comedy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 8

The finest play produced during the last three years in London is by common consent a Bill of Divorcement, In which Clemence Dane depicts the contrast between the generation…

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War to the Knife

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 12

Sir,--Be the shark tragedy. May I suggest that lifesavers should be armed with a knife or spear--a bayonet on the end of a stick would do…

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War Photographs Town Hall Exhibition Wonderful Collection

The Sun · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 2

The official War Photograph's Exhibition, opened by General Sir G. de L. Ryrie, in the Town Hall basement yesterday afternoon, contains several…

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War Memories. Story in Pictures. Fine Display at Town Hall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 13

The exhibition of official war photographs, which is now open to the public in the welllit basement of the Town Hall. tells a graphie story of the deeds of the Australians at the…

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Submarines and "Zepps." What Germany Lost in the War PARIS

Evening News · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 1

German documents state that Germany lost during the war 199 submarines with 370 officers and 300 others, and 30 zeppelins, with 36 officers and…

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War Graves Commission's Decision No Removals "Equal Treatment to Fallen" LONDON, Friday Night

The Sun · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 1

The Imperial War Graves Commission has decided to refuse, all applications for the removal of the bodies of soldiers from graves in the…

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Soldiers' Memorial

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 11

On Saturday the weather was not too favorable for the ceremony of laying, the foundation-stone of the memorial pavilion. The Mayor (Ald. Brooker) laid one…

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Soldiers' Memorial

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 5

Mr. John J. Smith, secretary of the Sailors and Soldiers' Memorial Association, asked the council to kerb and gutter that section of Arthur and Arcadia streets…

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The Soldiers' Memorial

Nepean Times · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 2

Carpenters are again reminded that tenders are invited for the erection of the superstructure of the rotunda on the Penrith memorial reserve. This is a…

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St. Marys Soldiers' Memorial Laying Foundation Stones

Nepean Times · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 5

Very unfavorable weather marred the proceedings in connection with the laying of the foundation stones of the St. Marys Soldiers' Memorial last Saturday…

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Sailors' and Soldiers' Parliament SACKED! How Hughes Government Honoured a Promise Lost Leg and Lost Jobs

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 27

For losing a leg in France Gunner Dillon was sacked from the Defence Department. Later he was sacked from the Postal Department for alleged incompetence, a stigma which independent evidence shows to be unjust…

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No Soldiers' Boycott

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 12

That the patients at Bodington Hall, Wentworth Falls, instituted a boycott of a local flower show as the result of an order refusing them permission to attend a dance in the…

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U.S. Soldiers' Bonus. New York, March 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 13

A Washington message says:—The Republican members of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee unanimously reported the Bonus Bill to-day. The bill…

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Preference. Mr. Cann Explain. Soldiers Favourable to Its Abolition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 13

"In certain quarters there seems to be a misunderstanding as to the attitude of returned soldiers towards the Preference Act." said the Minister for Minses, Mr. Cann,…

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Northern Tablelands. Soldier Settlers' Experience

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 14

Speaking in support of Lieut, Doull and the Coalition party at Uralla, Mr. W. E. Simmonds, one of the soldier settlers on the Kentucky Settlement, appealed earnestly for the…

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Country News. Soldier Settler's Ordeal. Kempsey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 14

A remarkable accident oceurred about five miles from Millbank, Upped Macleay, late on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Harry Wride, a returned soldier, who tas a holding in the…

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Kangaroos Return Joyous Welcome Home Captain Discusses Deciding Test

The Sun · Sunday 5 March 1922 · page 4

With Sandy Pearce, the veteran hooker, "on sticks," and other members of the party bearing scars as evidence of the…

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