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The wars & local soldiers, 1925

3,920 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 196

For Returned Soldiers. German Verge Bequest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 14

The State executive of the Returned sa[?] ors and Soldiers' Imperial League has [?] [?]ected Alderman F. Davison, of vaucluse, [?] its representative on the German Ve[?]…

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Everything Quiet "Soldier Sailors" Look for Land Jobs

The Sun · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 9

Quiet prevails on the waterfront. The seamen and the federation wharf laborers are awaiting definite instructions from Melbourne, where the…

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More Admissions Soldiers Enter Federation

The Sun · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 9

One hundred and twenty returned soldiers who were members of the old Overseas Shipping Labor Bureau were admitted to membership of the…

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Returned Soldiers Employment Found for Them

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 8

The Returned Soldiers' League Employment Bureau for the week ending January 15, 1925, reports having found positions for 27 returned soldiers…

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Digger "Investigations" Soldier Settlers "Spoofed"

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 5

THE newspapers announce that it is the intention of the Prime Minister (Mr Bruce) to investigate reports from London that a large numbers of…

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Aid to Ex-soldiers German Verge Bequest

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 4

The State Executive of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League has selected Alderman F. Davison, of Vaucluse, as [?]…

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Mr. Bavin to See Mr. Bruce Returned Soldiers' Position

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 1

Difficulties arising from the attitude of the New South Wales Government toward preference for returned soldiers and the conflicting award by Mr…

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To the Editor the State Government and Returned Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 8

Sir,--In your report of the Sunday meeting in the Domain, held by the Waterside Workers' Federation, Mr. G. Cann, M.L.A., is reported to have said…

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The Library History, Memories, Post-War Troubles, and a World of Little Lives "The Story of Port Harking, Cronulla, and Sutherland Shire," by Frank Cridiand. "Memoirs of Sir George Richard Greaces," written by himself "Ten Years After," by Sir Philip Gibbs. "The Great Little Insect" by Evelyn Chee[?]man

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 18

MR. FRANK CHIDLAND is too modest. He declares in his preface to his little volume relating "The Story of Port, Hacking, Gronulla, and Sutherland Shire" (Angus and Robertson, Sydney) that…

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First German Soldiers to Fall in War

The Australian Jewish Chronicle · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 16

Despite the efforts of the antiSemites to boycott the ceremony of the unveiling of the monument in Mannheim to the late Deputy…

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MR. C. E. W. Bean. War Historian. Fremantle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 10

"By the recent discovery in a trench in France of the remains of Australian and German soldiers, it has been established where a number of members of the 51st…

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Shipping War. "Get Back to Work" Seamen Advised Final Chance Case Adjourned Melbourne

Evening News · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 9

THE Arbitration Court sat in Melbourne to-day to hear argument on the applications by the Commonwealth…

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Politics in Queensland. Returned Soldiers and the Waterside Dispute. Gossip

The Catholic Press · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 40

Matters in connection with the waterside dispute are developing rapidly. It seems now that the main issues will be fought in Queensland. On more than one occasion in…

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Soldier Preference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 10

A letter, received by the Water Board yesterday from the Under-Secretary of the Premier's Department, stated that the Cabinet had decided as the policy of the Government…

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Preference to Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 4

Sir,--It would be interesting to know what the Government of New South Wales intends doing with regard to preference to soldiers, in view of the…

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"Soldier and Man" Sir William Birdwood Welcome in London London, January 20

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 5

Sir William Birdwood was entertained at lunch by the Australian and New Zealand Luncheon Club at the Hotel Cecil. Sir Edward Lucas, who…

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Returned Soldiers' Claim

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 4

One thing that stands out in this foolish strike in which the seamen and waterside workers have engaged is the apparent determination to be rid of the Returned Soldiers' Labor Bureau, which has stood by the ship-owners during the struggle just as the loyalists…

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Returned Men's Club

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 2

Final arrangements for the launch picnic to Killarney on Anniversary Day were made at the meeting of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Club, on Monday…

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For Home Trade Soldiers Appeal Anzac Day Idea

Evening News · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 5

A campaign to induce greater support for Australian-made goods in order that the dangers arising form excessive importations might…

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Their War Cry Cook's River Improvement

The Sun · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 9

Decayed seaweed drifting with the tide, Stinking sewerage in mudbanks to hide,…

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