Reports from country sub—branches of the R.S.L. indicate that the conference of soldier—settlers on the day prior to the State Congress next month will be of ...
Article : 382 wordsThose of our readers who took part in the Great War are invited to send for publication short accounts of happenlings with which they themselves were concerned. The tales can be ...
Article : 74 wordsFrom issues of the "Perth Gazette end W.A. Times," published in 1865., selections are reprinted hereunder that should prove particularly interesting to-day. ...
Article : 30 words"Old Mac,"Dongarra: "Re Private X and his pants (W.M..3/7/3). "Two cases of Aussie initiative which I can vouch for, were the transfer of the entrenching tool ...
Article : 82 wordsThe troops were evacuating camp, and big Colonel Ryrie, the thorough C.O. he was, was having a final look around to see ...
Article : 255 wordsTHE formation of a gentlemen's club is in contemplation, to combine not only the arrangements usual in such matters, but also sleeping accommodation for ...
Article : 43 wordsAccording to the Subiaco "Whizz Bang": Vice-president. C. J. Fonceca was a soldier Who made an obscure unit famous. He belonged to the Engineers, and ...
Article : 310 wordsOF the population above five years of age who can both read and write there are 13,326; who can read only, 2,550; who can neither read nor write, 3,945. The ...
Article : 81 wordsA lone tree, a solitary landmark, stood on the plain of the Salt Lake at Suvla Bay. One day there was a strange quiet all along the line and a Tommy was sitting ...
Article : 124 wordsTHE "Government Gazette" of Tuesday contains a notice from the Postmaster— General that on and after July 1 the inland postage upon newspapers will be abolished, ...
Article : 96 wordsThe affairs of diggers on the group settlements were again ventilated at the last meeting of the State executive. Members are satisfied that the system is out ...
Article : 215 wordsWhile in France we always imagined that the Tommies were carried everywhere in 'buses while we had to walk. On one occasion some vehicles bringing up men of ...
Article : 112 wordsON August 12. 1829, the birthday of King George IV., one hundred and one years ago last Tuesday, Western Australia was proclaimed a British colony. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 85 wordsThe author of "Bretherton," Mr. W. F. Morris, does not claim to have written a war book with a mission to abolish war. He has given us a novel which will be ...
Article : 552 wordsSubiaco sub—branch R.S.L. has emulated South Perth and is treading the Inky Way with an official organ of its very own, "The Whizz Bang." It is a typewritten sheet ...
Article : 525 wordsIn the 11[?]th How. Battery, 11th A.F.A., better known as Lord Nelson's Battery among the diggers of the 4th Division, our head cook, an old sailor, got (as he termed ...
Article : 120 wordsUPWARDS of 8,000 acres of land have been taken up on tillage leases during the past twelve months, a quantity which cannot fail to have an important influence ...
Article : 124 wordsWhen the 10th Light Horse were camp— ed near El Arish, the late Archbishop Riley paid us a visit. As the Chaplain General, making the customary inspection ...
Article : 98 wordsA little group of Eastern States Aussies were talking sheep and shearers and evidently they had all been "ringers" and created records in their day. They were ...
Article : 241 wordsOUR Guildford correspondent writes:— "Our town is slowly but surely progressing, several fine buildings being in the course of construction, and lately many of ...
Article : 185 wordsA private in a Tommy Labour battalion, he had hurt his ankle badly whilst unloading ammunition. His sympathetic M.O. ordered him to sit all day with the ...
Article : 208 wordsTHE first of June has yet another claim for remembrance by the citizens of Perth, as being the day upon which the Governor handed over to them the ...
Article : 260 wordsWinston Churchill, in his book "The World Crisis," says that the German Crown Prince has been harshly judged in the passion and progaganda of the War. ...
Article : 294 wordsThere is a sketch most of us have seen of a guardsman letting his rifle fall during a ceremonial parade. That sketch was based on fancy, but it was prophetic, for ...
Article : 182 wordsThere were 450 persons present at a memorial service held at St. Matthew's Church, Guildford, on Sunday afternoon, in honour of artillerymen who lost their lives ...
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Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), Thu 14 Aug 1930, Page 2
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