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The wars & local soldiers, 1924

3,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 198

War Gratuities. Conversion Into Stock. Captain Dyett's Example. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 February 1924 · page 9

The Secretary to the Federal Treasury (Mr. J. R. Collins) said to-day the Captain C. J. Dyett, Federal president of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of…

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Visiting Squadron Soldier Veterans' Position

The Sun · Thursday 7 February 1924 · page 10

Complaint was made at the annual meeting of the Rose Bay sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League last night that the South African Soldiers'…

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OVER-CAPITALISED Soldiers' Farms On Irrigation Areas

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 February 1924 · page 4

GRIFFITH.--Organised by the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League. Griffith branch, a large number of soldier settlers from Yenda and Griffith…

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British War Graves. London, Feb. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 9

Details for the final plans for the laying out of 700,000 British war graves throughout the world. Including 23.080 in Gallipoli, have been published by the Imperial War Graves…

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War-dead at Ypres London, February 6

The Sun · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 1

The War Graves Commission reports that its officials are still, finding bodies in the Ypres salient, at Vimy Ridge, and on the Somme. They have…

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Freight War Following the Patrick Co. Combine's Tactics

The Sun · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 11

With the announcement by the Patrick Steamships, Ltd., that the steamer Lady Isobel would leave with cargo for Brisbane, Townsville, and Cairns…

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Labor Amenities "Prey to a Faction" Internecine War

Evening News · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 7

A.L.P. headquarters regards the "manifesto" of the so-called "alternative [?] as a bogey. "Its origin," say officials, "brands…

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German Shipping. Increase Since the War. London, Feb. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 9

Mr. Havelock Wilson (secretary of the Seamen's and Firemen's Federation), in a letter to trade unions appealing for help for the German seamen on strike, says: "The fact…

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War Graves Commission's Plans Total of 700,000 English Gardens LONDON, February 6

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 7

Details of the final plans for the laying out of 700,000 British war graves, including 23,080 at Gallipoli, are published by the Imperial War Graves…

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A Notable War-time Figure the Passing of Woodrow Wilson, Whose Ideals His People Rejected

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 1

The passing of those that have moved in great spheres, in a time of world crisis, can never be regarded as of no consequence to the people of…

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Bodies Still Found in Old Battlefields Imperial Graves Commission Plans for 700,000 War Graves-- 144,000 Unidentified Bodies

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.--Details for the final plans of the laying-out of 700,000 British war graves throughout the world, including 23,080 in…

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Windfall for Soldiers German Verge's Estate Privy Council Decision

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 8

Returned soldiers in New South Wales will benefit to the extent of about £120,000 as the result of the decision given by the Judicial Committee…

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Poultry Farmers Soldier Settlements Co-operative Movement

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 8

A co-operative society has been formed in connection with Hillview (N.S.W.) Soldiers' Settlement for the marketing of produce and the…

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Young Turks Learning to Be Soldiers

Evening News · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 1

The spirit of millitarian [?] still alive Is turkey. They [?] young and train them well…

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Maimed Soldiers Question of Pensions

The Sun · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 8

It has been decided by the returned men who have lost an eye, or the sight of an eye, to form organisations of such cases throughout the…

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War Gratuity Conversion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 19

The prospectus of the Commonwealth War Gratuity and Conversion Loan waa issued yesterday in Melbourne. Copies of the prospectus will presumably be obtainable in…

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Western Australian War Memorial. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 18

A conference of city and country represontatatives, presided over by the Premier (Sir James Mitchell) decided to erect a State war memorial in King's Park, overlooking the…

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Books and Bookmen a Pre-war Statesman

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 14

"THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HOM, SIR HERBY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, G.C.B., by J. A. Spender (London, Hodder and Stoughton; Sydney, Angus and Robertson); two…

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Money Market War Gratuity Loan Its Special Appeal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 9

Though the terms offered for the new Federal loan are not exceptionally attractive, having regard to the general condition of the money market, they are…

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Eight Years of Torture Another Randwick War Wreck

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 3

In the by-ways of life you stumble upon war wrecks who have suffered a world of pain for what they conceived to be their…

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