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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

3,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 181

Europeans Wounded in Zanzibar Zanzibar

Truth · Sunday 9 February 1936 · page 15

A MOB, armed with swords, demonstrating against the law to prevent the adulteration of exportable copra, severely wounded three…

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Slasher Is Gaoled Wounded Woman He Loved

Truth · Sunday 9 February 1936 · page 22

FOUND guilty of a vicious assault upon the woman with whom he had been living, Albert Edward Howard, a ship's…

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Victim of Arabs Fatally Wounded By Swords ZANZIBAR

Truth · Sunday 9 February 1936 · page 14

THE Acting Resident Commissioner, Mr. Ian Humphrey, 35, died of wounds sustained in riots…

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Eight Who Died Headstones to Late War Veterans

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1936 · page 15

The Morobe Goldfields (New Guinea) sub-branch of the R.S.L. is having eight headstones erected at Morobe in memory of the eight war…

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Chance Meeting of Three Diggers Renew War Friendships in Cafe Grafton

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1936 · page 7

Three war friends whose last meeting was in France in 1918 met unexpectedly in a restaurant at Grafton--Messrs. R. Weatherell, a…

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Welcome Home

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 16

All members of the New South Wales team of cyclists who visited Adelaide for the national championships attended a welcome home harbour excursion and picnic organised by the Canterbury…

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Returned Men in Discard Press Attitude Is Deplored

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 8

An appeal to the Press to stand behind soldier organisations and individual soldiers, besides a rebuke to certain newspapers for their failure…

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Rifle Shooting. Club Matches at Anzac

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 7

Club matches were fired at the Anzac Range, Liverpool, on Saturday. In view of the M.D.R.C.U. prize meeting (B and C series) next Saturday. all events were fired from the 300. 500. or 600…

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BANDITRY Japan's War Heavy Losses London

The Sun · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 1

HEAVY casualties in the War on bandits in Manchukuo are revealed by the Japanese War Office, the Tokio correspondent of…

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Anti-war Crowds Aroused in Italy Charge by Police London

The Sun · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 1

ANTI-WAR demonstrations are increasing in Italy, according to the Paris correspondent of the…

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War and Immigration Mr. Lang On Paramount Issues In Australia MAITLAND

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 7

"The two important questions which will confront both State and Federal Governments this year are preparation for war and the reintroduction of subsidised immigration," said the State Labor Leader, Mr…

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Steps to Protect Romans Two Gas Shelters Authorised Money for War Rome

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 1

EXTENSIVE defence undertakings for the protection of Rome have been authorised by the Supreme Council of Defence,…

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Mussolini. Blames Britain. Prolongation of War. Had Accepted Hoare-laval Pun. London, Feb. 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 12

Signor Mussolini, in an interview with a member of the British House of Commons, stated that he had already drafted a cautious formula of…

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Soldier Drowned Tragedy at Liverpool

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 2

William Green, 18, of Ashmore-street, Erskineville, who was in camp with the Second Divisional Engineers at Liverpool, was drowned in the George's River…

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Tin Hares. Move by Ex-soldiers. to Raise Funds for Welfare Work

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 12

Following a motion submitted by the Railways and Tramways' Club, the annual conference of the Australian Legion on Saturday afternoon decided to promote mechanical hare…

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Old Soldiers' Homes. Suggested Memorials to Late King. Australian Legion's Support

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 6

At the annual conference of the Australian Legion, on Saturday, it was unanimously decided to support a proposal made at the recent interstate conference, held at Brisbane,…

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Motor Accidents. Seven Soldiers Injured Thrown Out of Lorry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 8

Seven men who were travelling to Goulburn as an advance party of the Sixth Light Horse camp were admitted to hospital at Goulburn in a serious condition. They were…

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Returned Soldiers' League. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 8

Referring to administrative costs of the Returned Soldiers' League, the annual report of the East Maitland sub-branch stated that feeling was steadily growing throughout the…

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Soldiers' Memorial. Pambula

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 8

The Pambula soldiers' memorial was officially unveiled yesterday afternoon by Colonel T. E. W. Irwin in the presence of a large number of returned soldiers, representatives of various…

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Soldier Drowned. Tragedy at Liverpool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 8

William Green, l8, of Ashmore-street, Erskineville, who was in camp with the Second Divisional Engineers at Liverpool, was drowned in the George's River yesterday…

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