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The wars & local soldiers, 1926

3,102 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 156

Soldiers' Day Collection Box Army Appeal in City

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 7

Soldiers' Day provided much needed money for war scarred men yesterday. Sydney, coming in early to work, met an army of ladles, who fought…

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Wounded Soldier Spends Nine Years in Hospital

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 March 1926 · page 3

As a result of war wounds, from which he has never recovered, a soldier has been in Randwick Hospital for nine years, and during that time has…

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Slashed with Razor Trouble on Steamer Two Men Wounded Newcastle

The Sun · Sunday 7 March 1926 · page 2

Kennedy O. Donovan was admitted to Newcastle Hospital late to-night suffering from severe injuries as the result of a brawl on the steamer…

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"Will Not Forget" School's War Memorial

The Sun · Sunday 7 March 1926 · page 2

"The school will not forget," are the words which Barker College has written above its war memorial. It was the spirit of this sentiment…

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Open War Upon Vivisection in Sydney

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 March 1926 · page 2

A determined fight against vivisection in Sydney has been launched by the recently formed branch of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection…

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English Sterling Touches Highest Point Since War

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 March 1926 · page 1

Pound sterling recently went back to the 1914 level—but everyone was so absorbed in moaning over sad financial conditions in the British Empire that…

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Merry War in the Trenches at Fullers' Jim Gerald

The Sun · Sunday 7 March 1926 · page 4

A novelty at Fullers' Theatre, presented yesterday, was a revue of the war. Or course, as Jim Gerald was Private Muggins, it was a hilarious…

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Anzac Day Proposal

Evening News · Monday 8 March 1926 · page 5

The Federal president of the Returned Soldiers' League, Capt. Dyett, recommends a monster parade and march-past of former members of the…

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General Wounded Madrid

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 March 1926 · page 1

The commander of the Spanish Foreign Legion has been Wounded while fighting at Tetuan, Morocco. A bullet tered his eye and…

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Saving Anzac Day From Politicians

Evening News · Monday 8 March 1926 · page 1

THE Bondi-Waverley branch of the Returned Soldiers' League has informed the State executive that. In view of the unseemly political wrangle…

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Anzac Day Churches' Part Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 March 1926 · page 7

In a letter to the general secretary of the Federal executive of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League, the Prime Minister intimates the…

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Rifle Shooting. Matches at Anzac Range

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 March 1926 · page 15

At the Anzac Range on Saturday 19 clubs were represented, and 44 targets requisitioned. There was a smoke baze, which varied in density, and the wind from the south-east was net steady. In spite of…

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War Memorials Reminder for Architects

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 March 1926 · page 4

During 1925 two important public competitions were launched, both connected with the Great War. The first is for the best design for a war…

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Feng Tries Hand at Diplomacy China's Little War Shanghai. Sunday Evening

Evening News · Monday 8 March 1926 · page 1

Reuter's Peking correspondent telegraphs that a gentral advance by General Kuo Min-chun occurred in the Machang district, the…

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At War with Unionism Shipowners' Law No Round Table Conference Baddeley Gets Busy

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 March 1926 · page 5

THE shipping companies controlling the whole coastal fleet training to the ports of New South Wales have constituted themselves…

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War Is Declared on Spiritualism by New Society Special to the "News" "LONDON, Sunday Evening

Evening News · Monday 8 March 1926 · page 1

A NEW Roman Catholic society, supported by Cardinal Bourne and many Catholic archbishops and bishops is launching on organised campaign…

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Soldier Settlers. the Relief Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 March 1926 · page 9

By order of the Minister for Lands (Mr. Loughlln) a lottnr Is bolng sent to every soldier bottler in the State polling out to him that the provisions of the Roturnod…

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Letters War Memorial and Sculptors

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 March 1926 · page 4

Sir,--The protest of Mr. S. E. Coleman is timely. It might appear now that Sir Bertram Mackcnnal's letters from England, his speeches in Sydney, and the opportune…

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W.A. War Memorial Proposed Schemes Perth

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 9 March 1926 · page 1

At a meeting of the State executive of the Returned Soldiers' League. a letter was received from the Perth Labor Women's Organisation, recommending that the £3000, now in hand…

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Costly War on Bunny How Station Suffers Wagga

Evening News · Tuesday 9 March 1926 · page 1

At Murrulebale Station, it is costing £1200 a year to combat the rabbit peat, but the manager, Mr. H. S. Eldershaw, was fined…

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