Those of our readers who took part in the Great War are invited to send for publication short accounts of happenings with which they themselves were concerned. The tales can be either ...
Article : 96 wordsThere is a marked revival of sentiment among the ex-service men in Western Australia, and sub-branches of the Returned Soldiers' League and unit associations are displaying more interest in their affairs than ever before. The foundation on which these organisations are built is comradeship, and the old platoon spirit is ...
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Article : 204 wordsDear "Non-Com."—Can any of our diggers give me the words of "The Australaise," a song popular in the war days, and, I believe, composed by a West Australian. ...
Article : 73 wordsJohn Adamson, on March 16, at Collie; late 48th Battalion, A.I.F. Robert Price, on March 23, ...
Article : 132 wordsDear "Non-Com,"—The passing of yet another of our most famous naval men, Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty, recalls to mind the sinking of the Blucher at ...
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Article : 124 wordsDear "Non-Com."—Apropos the suggestion that "St. A.'s" Virgilians should now be called the Saints, the diggers and highwaymen the Sinners, and asking for ...
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Article : 117 wordsDear "Non-Com."—It is told of Sir Andrew Agnew (of Lochnow) that after the Battle of Dettinger, in 1743, George II. who was in command of the British ...
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Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), Thu 9 Apr 1936, Page 2
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