Graphic details of the fearful carnage that took place after the landing of the Australian troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula are recounted by Sergeant T. W. ...
Article : 503 wordsA special donation of £2000, divided equally between South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, was recently promised to the Belgian Relief Fund ...
Article : 176 wordsThe mayoress of Brighton, Mrs. D. Green, issued invitations for a Red Cross display at the Brighton town hall on Friday afternoon, and so great was the ...
Article : 275 wordsThe special appeal by the Government for volunteers has already resulted in a promising increase in recruiting. The call to arms met with a generous response in ...
Article : 346 wordsResidents from all parts of the district, as well as a number of motorists from Melbourne, visited the military camp to-day. The soldiers are already on friendly terms ...
Article : 155 wordsA fine display of recruiting posters was placed outside the main and side entrances of the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon. The posters attracted a great deal of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 88 wordsPrivate H. Cattanach, in writing to a friend at St. Kilda from the Indian General Hospital, Alexandria. points with pride to the fact that the bayonet charge of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 247 wordsUp to the present £860 has been collected in Cantenbury for the Belgian Relief Fund. The committee proposes to continue the monthly collections, but, in ...
Article : 59 wordsHaving received legal advice, the Government is of opinion that it cannot take action against the writer of the letter read by Mr. Wart in the House of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 915 wordsAnother shooting sensation occurred at Surry Hills this evening, as the result of which a woman named Alice Constance White, 35, was killed, and Joseph ...
Article : 172 wordsSix new branches of the Red Cross Society have been formed the past fortnight, at Armadale, Creswick, Dean's Marsh, Harrow, Heatherton and Maldon. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsFor some reason, not easily to be discovered, recruiting has been a good dead brisker in New South Wales during the past few weeks than in Victoria. The daily ...
Article : 249 wordsA contribution of £10,000 was requested from the Government on Friday by a deputation which waited on the Premier to augment a fund for the relief of dependents ...
Article : 226 wordsNumbers of the Australian soldiers who landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula under a hall of lead experienced remarkable escapes from injury. In a letter to his parents, ...
Article : 276 wordsThe Defence department on Friday asked the Alfred Hospital management to consider the question of reducing the number of junior medical officers so as to make ...
Article : 174 wordsSir,—Having travelled through some of the large cities of Australia, I am surprised at the lack of enthusiasm shown by the inhabitants in regard to the war. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsAt Saturday evening's Band of Hope demonstration Rev. Chas. Tregear was principal speaker. He submitted a motion congratulating the Premier and his ...
Article : 92 wordsSir,—I am a mechanic by trade, and, like many others, debarred from military service, yet anxious to help in any direction I can by working voluntarily and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 550 wordsAnother account of dreadful atrocities prepetrated by the Turks on wounded Australians is given by Sapper J. T. Richards in a letter to his mother at Sunshine. ...
Article : 387 wordsA vigorous appeal for a more complete realisation of the serious crisis in which the Empire is plunged was made last night at the Collins-street Baptist Church ...
Article : 635 wordsAn offer to float the sunken cruiser Emden has been received by Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. from Japan. Mr. Teisuke Shimizu, a veteran diver of Kobe, applied ...
Article : 110 wordsReferring to an advertisement in our Public Notices, relating to a memorial to Victorian soldiers who fell in the South African war, the committee of the fund ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. G. W. Craven, of Dana-street, Ballarat, has received a graphic letter from his son, Corporal Norman Craven, who has been wounded at the Dardanelles. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 338 wordsThe recruiting movement in being taken up by the Terang branch of the Australian Natives' Association and the local patriotic committee, who have arranged for a public ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. W. Watson, who imports about half the butter brought into Western Australia, arranged for shipments of American butter. The Katoomba has discharged her first ...
Article : 66 wordsUnder the War Precautions Act, recently passed, power is given to commandants of the States to remove all undesirable persons from certain declared areas. The ...
Article : 68 wordsEdward Cantwell, an elderly man, living in Wattle-street, Sydney, was knocked down to-day by two horses attached to a hearse. While on the ground Cantwell's ...
Article : 49 wordsRecord prices were indicated for choice oaten chaff on Saturday morning. quotations ranging up to £13 per ton. The upward movement is ascribed to the scarcity ...
Article : 35 wordsFresh contracts for harness and saddlery for the Expeditionary Force have recently been let to firms throughout the Commonwealth. Various articles are included in ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Wellington Presbytery has strongly protested against the refusal of the Minister of Defence to appoint chaplains to the New Zealand hospital ship other than ...
Article : 81 wordsIncreasing difficulty is being experienced in obtaining supplies of fodder. On Friday it was impossible to obtain a bag of hay chaff in the town. The whole of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 168 wordsAn interesting narrative of his experience during the landing on Gallipoli Peninsula and in the fighting in the hills is given by Private Vernon R. Robertson in a letter ...
Article : 516 wordsMr. R. T. Bail, M.L.A., has received a communication stating that the Attorney-General has given an absolute assurance that if fodder is imported from Victoria no ...
Article : 47 wordsSir,—A rail station is built to the camp, but is closed. It constitutes a scientific basis for the army service. Essendon, Brunswick and Coburg councils complain ...
Article : 116 wordsAt the meeting of the metropolitan committee A.N.A. on Friday the following officers were elected for the present year:—Chairman, Mr. E. H. Haughton; ...
Article : 171 wordsIt is notified for information that mail matter for members of the Australian Naval Bridging Train, who have left Australia, should be addressed as under:— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 204 wordsA letter was received from the Railway Commissioners by the Chelsea Progress Association on Saturday night, stating that attention had been given to the complaint ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsPatriotic action of employers with regard to employes who enlisted was referred to yesterday by the Minister of Defence, who made available the following copy of a ...
Article : 126 wordsSir,—The remarks of "Father of One at the Front" undoubtedly cast an unwarranted slur upon the employes of the Victorian railways service. Railway men since ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsWhile on duty in Swanston-street last evening Constable P. Clancy was stopped by a man, who handed over a gold watch, which, he said, he had just picked up ...
Article : 110 wordsA roll of honor of members of the Prahran branch of A.N.A. who have joined the Expeditionary Forces for active service abroad is being compiled, and relatives of ...
Article : 92 wordsWhilst many able-bodied young men of the fighting age are still turning a deal car to the call of the Empire, it is satisfactory to know that there are others who ...
Article : 153 wordsCaptain A. J. A. Maudsley, who, after having been in charge of the 63rd Battalion of Senior Cadets (Fitzroy and Collingwood), has been promoted to a permanent ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 wordsSir,—In connection with the work of the Purple Cross Service of Victoria, in its care for troop horses during transit and those wounded on the battle fields, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsThe unveiling of an honor roll on which are inscribed the names of 50 members of the Yarra-street Methodist Church who have gone to the war was the occasion of ...
Article : 99 wordsRegarding the five unfinished games in the late chess match, Victoria v. New South Wales, the referee, Mr. H. Charlick, of Adelaide, has awarded wins to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 194 wordsThe fearless dash of the Australian troops in scaling the heights after landing on the Gallipoli peninsula is described by Private J. Hogarth, formerly of South ...
Article : 554 wordsAt St. George's Church, Malvern, last night, Canon Hart, warden of St. John's College, made a stirring appeal to a congregation of men, which included the State ...
Article : 117 wordsA correspondent, signing himself J.D.B., writes:—"A letter received by the last mail from a wounded officer makes a request which, I think, would be of service to many ...
Article : 125 wordsSir,—As reinforcements will be leaving for the front shortly, I would like to apply to the public through you for any sporting material, music of any ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 wordsThe Supreme Court has decided that the Public Trust Office premises are liable to be rated, on the ground that the common fund of the Public Trust is not ...
Article : 66 wordsHAMILTON,—An anonymous donor has promised £250 towards the purchase of a motor ambulance for presentation by Hamilton to the Defence authorities. Mr. S. Winter Cooke and ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 14 Jun 1915, Page 11
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