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The wars & local soldiers, 1926

3,102 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 156

"Most Pugnacious Monarch" King in War Time a Notable Letter London. Thursday Evening

Evening News · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 9

IT IS REVEALED that the publication of the papers of Colonel Wilson's representative to Europe during the Great War omits a…

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To-day Is Soldiers' Day

Evening News · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 1

A company of charming crasaders marching off from headquarters in mass formation for an attack the city's pockets this morning…

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To Help the Soldiers

The Sun · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 1

Pretty girls in pretty uniforms are over-running the city to-day, coaxing the Willing coin into their boxes to help the soldiers. A labor of love is theirs…

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Soldiers' Day Martin-place Alive Color and Noise

The Sun · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 7

Chocolate wheels are clicking and collection boxes are rattling in the city to-day bands are playing, and pretty girls are selling buttons and trinkets…

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For the Soldiers To-day's Stallholders

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 2

Mrs. David Kirke, honorary life member of the Highland Society, is in charge of No. 3 Stall in Martin Place to-day, and will have with her Piper…

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Left Camp Soldiers' Grievance Adelaide

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 3

One hundred and eight members of the 43rd Battalion, in camp at Seacliff, to-day left camp and came to the city for meals, declaring that the food…

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Soldiers' Day

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 8
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sydney Morning Herald

To-day is Soldiers' Day, and an appeal is to be made in Sydney and throughout the country for funds for the various soldiers' organisations. It is an annual effort,…

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Shooting Affray. Man Wounded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 15

Following an argument in a shooting gallery at 290[?] George-street, city, last night, a shot was fired and William Francis Robertson, who conducts the gallery, was wounded…

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War Memorial and Sculptors

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 6

Sir,--In yesterday's issue of your paper was published a report to the effect that Sir Bertram Mackennal had been commissioned to design the proposed war…

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General Cables War Claim Settled. Seattle, March 4

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 1

The American-Hawaiian Steamship Company announces that it has been awarded claims aggregating 2,050,000 dollars by the Mixed Claims…

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War Memorial and Martin-place. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 8

Sir,—There is an old saying that "Position [?] everything." In the case of a national memorial this is surely true. Is is a fact that those in control of the funds of the war…

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Echo of the War. Colonel House. Interview with the King. LONDON, March 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 15

It has been revealed that the recently published "Intimate Papers" of Colonel House, who was closely associated with the late President Wilson, omits a letter Written by…

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Muddle of War and Politics Chinese Unrest Reds' Henchman Losing Shanghai. Friday Evening

Evening News · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 1

REPORTS of fighting in Honan and around Tientsin show that Marshal We Perfu[?] and Marshal Chang Tso-lin has so far…

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Patriot King War-time Letter House to Wilson Omitted From Papers LONDON March 5

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 1

It is revealed that in his intimate papers Colonel House, who represented President Wilson in Europe during the early years of…

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Pet Hallucinations of Sydney's Near Mad King Richard of England Declares World War Cranks of Every Type Harass Foreign Consuls

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 11

H. G. WELLS HAS as central figure in his latest novel a mild little man who rides the obsession that he is Sargon. King of…

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Soldiers' Day. a Vigorous Appeal. Colour and Gaiety in Martin-place

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 15

Spacious and flooded with sunshine Martin-place usually looks like a great, roughly carron chalice of stone, bubbling over with fabulously golden and sparkling wine, but…

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Soldiers' Day Appeal in Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 16

SCENE IN MARTIN-PLACE. SOME OF THE MANY COLLECTORS…

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Soldiers' Memorial Berrigan

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 10

The subscriptions towards the soldiers' memorial are now over £1000. Tenders for the building have been invited…

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