Our Citizen Soldiers
Major W. A. le Roy Fry, O.B.E., officer commanding the 45th Battalion (St. George's Regiment), has reason to be proud of his battalion. At this year's…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1929
3,770 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 189
Young Australian Soldiers in Camp at Liverpool
FOLLOWING THE FINE TRADITIONS of the Diggers, the young Australian soldier is a cheery, happy-go-lucky soul, who delights in the outdoor life and excitement of camp. These pictures show the boys of the 45th Battalion, crack regiment of the 9th Brigade, now in training at Liverpool. The happy warrior on bottom right is not playing a mouth organ, but eating water melon. Even the band looks cheerful wading the river…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →16 Stitches Woman Wounded Another Charged
AGNES Jones. 63, a domestic, was charged before Mr. Shepherd, S.M., at the Central Court to-day with having maliciously inflicted…
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London, Tuesday.--The political correspondent of the "Daily Mirror," says that there will be a reduction of, approximately, £3,000,000 in the Navy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sensation Raid Police War on City "Go-Getters"
By a sensational raid on city offices yesterday police made their biggest effort to stamp out the operations of go-getters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Timber War. Sold and Cheerful Timbermen Money Rolls in Stacks Pile Up
STACKS of timber all along the waterfront, punts in sinking condition, timber vessels fully laden and unable to discharge!…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War and the Jobs Call Those '17 Loyalists on the Scab Front (To the Editor)
Sir,--For some time past I have open rending of 1917 loyalists. These loyalists were men who were deaf from 1914 until 1917. In 1914 the Government called for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Forty Killed In Battle For Mexican Border Town Navy at "War" "The Sun" Will Be There Reduced Estimates London
At the invitation of the Admiralty a special representative of "The Sun" will again attend the Grand Fleet exercises--on this occasion, one of the biggest of recent years. "The Sun's" representative will join H.M.S. Repulse with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PADRE M.C. 'Flu Victim "Woodbine Willie" Soldiers' Friend London
INFLUENZA claimed among its victims at Liverpool to-day, the Rev. Geoffrey Studdert…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Why Kertz Was Wounded Old Associate of "Botany May"
STORIES of over-charging in connection with the cocaine traffic surround the wounding of Albert Kerts at Terry-street, on Wednesday night, and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Under the Lam in the Library Book of the Week Greatest War Novel Poignant Romance of War Dramatic, Tense, Thrilling Lauded the Wide World Over
"The case of Sergent Griseha." by Arnold Zweig. Our copy for Dunlop and Co., 33a George-street, Sydney, 6/ OUT of the War, only few of which have made any lasting impression, emerges "The Case…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Woman Masquerader Tells Her Life Story "Tragedy" War-ruined Romance Reared As a Boy London
"It all ended in tragedy." Valerie Smith, who for years masqueraded in amazing fashion as "Captain Leslie Barker," and who has now revealed her tragic life story, sums up thus her romance with an unnamed Digger with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gordon King Becomes a Scotchman with Avalon Took the Pot in a Soldier's Wind Those Scotch Pipers Blew so Hard They Brought a Southerly Along to Help the 18's Winner Hopped Along From the Pigs
THE fifth race for the Scotchman's Hill Cup—the Melbourne Cup of sailing—was held yesterday, over the Sow and Pigs' course, and attracted a large crowd. The race was originated in 1924 by the patrons of Bradley's Head, led by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dark Angel Keeps Death Watch on China's Great Wall Where Famine's Ghastly Spectre Walks 2,000,000 Chinese Peasants Starve in Kansu Brigandage and War Lay Waste a Province
FAMINE on a scale unprecedented, even in troubled Cathy, long used to extremes in hardship and…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Rifle Shooting. Anzac Range
The attendante and the shooting at the Arnac range on Saturday afternoon were above the average. T[?] finest performance was that of G. Wheeler (Bankstown), who obtained a 14-shot possible at 800 yards. H…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Memorial Hospital Fete
Members of the Women's Guild attached to the War Memorial Hospital at Waverley, who make themselves responsible for all the [?]hen and blankets needed by the hospital, held their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Money-losing Scheme Egg-pulp War With China
The suggestion made in London by Mr. Alex Harrison, of the Victorian Egg-Producing Society, in a special "Pictorial" interview, that Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Bread War. Newcastle Threat, 1½d a Loaf Reduction. Newcastle
A sensation has been caused in Newcastle by the announcement made yesterday that, as from to-morrow, 27 suburban shops intend to soil bread at 4½d the 21b loaf, as against the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"An Old Soldier" Fancied Grapes
At 5 a.m. on Sunday, March 3, Constable Charker, of Liverpool, in reply to a telephone message, went to the residence of Mr. Thomas Arthur Haerse,…
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At a meeting, of the Catholic Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Association, held in St. Mary's Cathedral Chapter House yesterday afternoon, Mr. Peter Gallagher (chairman)…
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