LONDON, Friday.--Victoria Crosses have been awarded to the following:-- CAPTAIN HANSEN, 6th Lincolnshires, New Army.--On August 9, at Yilghin ...
Article : 129 wordsPARIS, Sunday.--"Le Temps'" Sofia correspondent states:--"It is reported that Bulgaria, with the assistance of the Central Powers, is endeavoring to arrange an ...
Article : 190 wordsThat a contingent of wounded soldiers arriving in Port Jackson on Saturday morning should be compelled to wait down stream because it happened to be a big race day and there was, in ...
Article : 781 wordsThere is plenty of evidence of the effect the Allies' success in the west is having on the position along the eastern front. It is reported that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 282 wordsNot only did Private L. B. Woods, of Trangle, (13th Battalion), got shot in the back--he was in the lead at the time--by a sniper, but he received a fractured leg and part of his ...
Article : 348 wordsThe soldiers arrived at the Randwick Military Hospital in motor ears, which had been arranged for by the Staff Officer for Invalids, Lieutenant-Colonel Crawford Robertson, who ...
Article : 651 wordsThe Governor-General and Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, accompanied by Lady Doris Blackwood, and attended by Captain Foxton (Military Secretary), Captain Haskctt-Smith (A.D.C.), and ...
Article : 577 wordsLONDON, Sunday.--Mr. Oppenhelmer, South African diamond pioneer, has offered £100 each for the first four South African recipients of the Victoria Cross, and £50 ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Sunday.-- The "Chronicle" states that the American Ambassador has approached the Porte and offered to transport to America the whole of the ...
Article : 63 wordsROME, Sunday.--The Petrograd correspondent of the Corriere della Sera states that the representatives of the Quadruple Entente pointed out to Dr. Radaslavoff that ...
Article : 83 wordsPrivate C. Sanders, of the 15th Battalion, who hails from Queensland, referred to the big part that mining is playing at the Dardanelles. Long before the Australians landed ...
Article : 139 wordsAMSTERDAM, Sunday.--The birthday of Field-Marshal von Hindenburg was celebrated throughout Germany on Friday and Saturday. ...
Article : 80 wordsSOFIA, Sunday.--In a semi-official statement, replying to the French, and Russian press, it is explained that Bulgaria has mobilised in order to face the new ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 words"In the general advance at the beginning at August there were severe losses." This is what Sergeant F. B. Nilon, of Cootamundra, says. "Everybody in the ranks came to the ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Hon. Thomas Agar-Robartes, M.P., has been killed in action in France. He Was one of the most popular members of the House of Commons, and was recently ...
Article : 99 wordsThe returned men speak in glowing terms of a machine gun patented by a West Australian, which was first introduced at Quinn's Post. It poured out 1200 bullets to the minute. It is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsAMSTERDAM, Sunday.--Sir Edward Grey's statement on the Balkan situation has not yet been published in Germany ...
Article : 22 wordsThe bravery displayed by Surgeon-Captain Luther, of the 15th Battalion, who was killed by a bomb at Salt Lake during August, was referred to by returned Queenslanders. This ...
Article : 90 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Saturday.--Dr. Fredrick Cook, the alleged discoverer of the North Pole, has been arrested at Rangoon and held by the British authorities, ...
Article : 88 wordsROME, Sunday.--The latest communique states:-- "The enemy has wasted an enormous quantity of ammunition on the Isonzo front. ...
Article : 36 wordsPrivate L. Reid, of the 9th Battalion, returned with two bullets still in b[?] head and one in his neck. His story was a simple one. "There was a bit of a duel between us and ...
Article : 106 wordsPrivate T. Waters, of Denman, who was with the 13th Battalion, told of the night march and charge up Hill 791, on the early morning of August 3. Waters, who was quartered amongst ...
Article : 516 wordsBROKEN HILL, Sunday.--Last Sunday a meeting of members of the A.M.A., by a majority of 10, carried tho following motion:-- "In view oi the failure of the underground ...
Article : 155 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday.--Danger of an immediate break in relations between the United States and Germany over the Arabic has been averted by the assurances ...
Article : 48 wordsSergeant S. S. Smith (6th Light Horse), of Manly, and son of Mr. Sydney Smith, of the Sydney Royal Exchange, was one of a party of eight, which included the late Private C. R. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 186 wordsNEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The returned wounded Queenslanders passed through Newcastle in the Brisbane mail train to-night. They were provided with refreshments at the station, and ...
Article : 38 wordsWELLINGTON, Sunday.--The latest list casualties Includes two officers and two men, who died of wounds, and 23 wounded men. In the latter list is included the name of Private ...
Article : 38 wordsPARIS, Sunday.--It is officially reported that the German offensive towards the eastward of Sventziany is considered a complete failure. The enemy has everywhere ...
Article : 82 wordsMELBOURNE Sunday.--A transport containing another batch of wounded soldiers arrived in the buy to-day and anchored a long way down. She will be brought alongside Port ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 333 wordsLONDON, Sunday,--An official report from Johannesburg states that General Smuts, Minister for Finance and Defence, barely escaped death as the result of a hooligan plot at ...
Article : 224 wordsPARIS, Sunday.--A semi-official narrative of the fighting in Champagne from September 26 to 29, describes the capture northward of Souvain and Perthes, of 40 ...
Article : 144 wordsTrooper A. J. Woods, of the 5th Light Horse, Queensland, received 11 bullet wounds. His company had charged and secured a Turkish trench when the order to retire was given. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 137 wordsPrivate O. Macdonnell, of the 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance, was at Lonesome Pine when the Australians gallantly took that position. The losses among the Australians, he said, were ...
Article : 147 wordsHOBART, Sunday.--The football season concluded on Saturday, Lefroy winning the premiership by defeating Cananore by 6 goals 12 behinds to 3 goals 8 behinds. Very little interest has been evinced in the premiership ...
Article : 40 wordsNEWCASTLE, Sunday.--There are now 913 recruits in camp at the Newcastle Showground. Arrangements have been made to despatch 250 of the men to Liverpool camp on Tuesday. ...
Article : 52 wordsDriver Phillip Hall, of the 1st Field Battery, Queenslander, had the misfortune to be struck n the forehead by a splinter from a bomb ropped from a Taube aeroplane, and also ...
Article : 151 wordsPETROGRAD, Sunday.--An official report states that the enemy is continuing to commit atrocities. A murdered Russian officer and two cavalrymen, taken prisoner ...
Article : 53 wordsThe western branch of the Railway Workers and General Laborers' Association has carried the following motion:--"That the members this branch of the R.W. and G.L. Association ...
Article : 104 wordsNEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Thirty-five Newcastle soldiers, who had been spending their final leave with relatives and friends, left for Sydney this afternoon. A large crowd assembled at the ...
Article : 39 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.--Yesterday the football season came to a close, when Shirt beat Port Adelaide for the premiership by 6 goals 10 behinds to 4 goals 10 behinds. The attendance was the biggest for years, numbering ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Motor Yacht Club of New South Wales entertained 50 of the returned wounded soldiers on Saturday afternoon. Motor ears called at the Randwick Hospital for the soldiers, and ...
Article : 96 wordsMrs: R. R. MacKinnon, of the North Sydney Red Cross Society; recently appealed for £2000 for the purchase of plum puddings and Christmas comforts for the New South Wales troops ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 wordsAMSTERDAM, Sunday.--A German patrol boat struck a mine at the mouth of the Ems, and beached at Borkum. ...
Article : 24 wordsDUBBO, Saturday.--Thirty recruits presented themselves at the local office during the week, 25 being accepted. ...
Article : 18 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.--Recruiting figures during the past week show a big falling off. Only 358 men were accepted from 473 offering. The total accepted since July 5 was 27,613. ...
Article : 32 wordsDuring a conversation with a number of Queenslanders at the Soldiers' Club, one related a story of "Beachy Bill," a gun used by the Turks and which is situated about a mile ...
Article : 91 wordsWOLLONGONG, Sunday.--In the Congregational Church to-night a roll of honor was unveiled, containing the names of 16 soldiers who have been adherents to the church. Two have ...
Article : 53 wordsCorporal Bugler A. L. Wilson, of Redfern, was wounded in the charge at Lonesome Pine. "The Turks," he said, "poured shrapnel into us from start to finish. The colonel said to us: ...
Article : 79 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--The Queensland recruiting figures for last week were 914 volunteers, 806 accepted. The figure's for the month were 4089 volunteered; 3560 accepted. ...
Article : 30 wordsHOBART. Sunday.--The ninth ease meningitis occurred at Claremont Camp on Saturday ...
Article : 17 wordsMotor-car owners who have been asked to make their cars available for the transport of wounded expected to arrive to-morrow are hereby notified that the Red Cross Society has ...
Article : 102 wordsPERTH, Sunday.--Last week's recruiting figures for Perth are: 136 passed, 48 rejected. ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Mon 4 Oct 1915, Page 8
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