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The wars & local soldiers, 1924

3,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 198

Shot Fired at Cat. Boy Wounded in His Bed. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1924 · page 5

Wounded in the back with a pea-rifle bullet, Douglas James, aged 7 years, was found lying in his bed early this morning. The boy lives with his father in Hoddle-street, East…

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War Cemeteries. Mr. Bruce's Visit. France and Australia. LONDONm Dec. 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1924 · page 5

Mr. Bruce began the last day of his tour of the French battlefields by an early morning visit to the Communal Cemetery at Ypres, where a small gathering, including the…

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War Graves Visit by Mr. Bruce the Cause of Liberty Australian Sentiment LONDON, December 30

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 January 1924 · page 5

Mr. Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia, began the last day of his tour with an early-morning visit to Ypres Communal Cemetery, where a small…

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War in the Desert Italians Attack Arabs in Sandstorm Briton in Slavery London, Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 1 January 1924 · page 1

Italy won a desert war within a fortnight, by quelling the rebellion of the Mahallas Arabs, in Italian Libya, says the Rome correspondent of the…

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Soldier Burned Out Blaze at Bendick Murrell YOUNG

Evening News · Tuesday 1 January 1924 · page 2

The home of Mr. Harry Burton, soldier settler, of Bendick Murrell, was destroyed by fire in his absence. Notes to the value of £20 were…

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Swastika Wins Rawson Cup Successful Re-appearance in a "Soldier's Wind"

Referee · Wednesday 2 January 1924 · page 14

The Rawson Cup has changed hands. The 1922-28 holder, Reo, failed badly, finishing twelfth, but her colleague from…

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A Soldiers' Memorial And Some N.S.W. Scenes

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 2 January 1924 · page 11

DR. EARLE PAGE Acting Prime Minister, assisted by Mr. Austin Chapman…

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Unknown Soldier Burial in Melbourne R.S.L. Opinion Divided

The Sun · Wednesday 2 January 1924 · page 5

Referring to-day to a proposal being sponsored in Victoria for the burial of an unknown soldier beneath the Shrine of Remembrance in St…

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Truck Capsizes Returned Soldier Killed on Hospital Leave Four Others Injured BRISBANE

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 January 1924 · page 7

A returned soldier, who was a patient at Rosemount Military Hospital, but had been granted leave to spend the New Year holidays with relatives,…

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Reviews. Wonderful War Pictures

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 15

Australian Deeds and the Camera. "PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF TILE WAR: Being Reproductions of Pictures Taken by the Australian Official Photographers."…

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War Heroine Many Distinctions Triumph of Massage

Evening News · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 8

Decorated with the Royal Red Cross, matron of the Canadian Army Medical Message Corps, matron to the Duke of Connaught's…

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War Gratuity Claims Still Coming In Redemption in May

The Sun · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 8

Despite the fact that payment of the soldiers' war gratuity has been in force for, nearly four years, there are thousands of Australian soldiers,…

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Famous War Nurse To Live in Australia Treated Princess Pat

The Sun · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 8

A personal friend of the Duke, of Connaught and Lady Patricia Ramsay, and the recipient of the Royal Red Cross. Mrs. Ebba…

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Australian Trade. Commissioner's Report. Standard of Living. Lower Than Before the War. London, Jan. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 9

Mr. S. W. B. M'Gregor, British Senior Trade Commissioner in Australia, In his report for 1923 says that the cost of living in Australia shows a tendency to increase,…

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My Books of the Week "Genesis of the War" "As We See It" Two Ex-premiers Explain Asquith and Viviani

Evening News · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 10

MR. H. H. ASQUITH and M. Rene V[?]ani, Premiers of Britain and France, have set out to explain why the war occurred. The former has written "The Genisis of the War," published by Cossell and Co., a copy of which Messrs. Dymock's have sent me, whilst Messrs…

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The Old Irish Fighting Men: Warriors Not Soldiers

The Catholic Press · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 17

Paradoxically enough, the Irish as a people have never been a military people. The earliest record shows them as a nation of wariors like the early Greeks—…

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Waterfront Award Returned Soldiers Pleased

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 6

Mr. L. C. Elliott (president of the R.S. and S. I.L.) states that returned soldiers on the waterfront are very pleased that Mr. Justice Powers in his award…

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The Anzac Parade

Evening News · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 9

Sir,—The sight that appeal[?] way to the city from [?] every morning is Anzac. [?] The stretch of green graze domed…

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The War and the Boss

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 4

During the years prior to the war, Britain appeared to be in a very flourishing condition until the crisis developed that lead to that terrible upheaval that was responsible…

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At Gallipoli War Graves Commission MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 6

The Australian members of the Imperial War Graves Commission at Gallipoli have rallied the Defence Department seasonal greetings, and saying…

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