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Article : 120 wordsLIEUT. HOCKENHULL, M.C., late of the 47th Battery.--Wanted by George Grieve, 32 Austin Street, Fairfield Park, ...
Article : 158 wordsFRITZ put over some dangerous ironmongery during the big fight. The Fourth Divvy were the recipients of three particularly destructive ...
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Article : 153 wordsSOME years ago the Australian Legion of ex-Servicemen's Clubs inaugurated a memorial service at the Cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney at ...
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Article : 175 wordsANY Light Horseman, who was in Port Said when the French troops from the Congo were there, should remember the chase ...
Article : 169 wordsDRIVER J. S. PENN, of the 4th D.A.C., is anxious to get into touch with any D.A.C. Digger, who witnessed an accident about ...
Article : 100 wordsTHE allocation of awards for bravery in the field has always been a bone of contention among ex-members of the A.I.F. ...
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Article : 180 wordsAT one period of the war, Cairo was a particularly unhealthy spot, owing to riots, and, in many cases, batches of Diggers were ordered to quell the ...
Article : 101 wordsDUNTROONERS will remember Colonel Owen, a great little old man from Gallipoli, who took charge of an officers' school in 1916-1917. ...
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Article : 159 wordsREMEMBER Big Bill, the mess or derly at the detail camp at Moascar? He had threatened reprisals if the hungry mob at his table, did not ...
Article : 103 wordsSPECIAL interest attaches to the general reunion of the 38th Battalion in Melbourne on Anzac Eve (Saturday, April 23), as this will be the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Smith's Weekly (Sydney, NSW : 1919 - 1950), Sat 9 Apr 1932, Page 14
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