Referring to a paragraph in a recent issue of "The Western Mail" in which I stated that at the 16th Battalion reunion a digger had handed me a little snap of the ...
Article : 193 wordsThose 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 ...
Article : 74 wordsThe annual meeting of the Harvey subbranch of the R.S.L. was held on October 29. Mr. G. Palmer was elected president, Mr. B. M. Lofthouse senior vice-president, ...
Article : 819 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 ...
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Article : 129 wordsThe minutes of the fortnightly meetings of the State executive of the R.S.L. will be regularly published in "The Western ...
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Article : 36 wordsDuring the advance on Gaza, through the Sinai desert, all Lewis guns, etc., were transported on pack mules. The mules were tethered to a picket line every ...
Article : 146 wordsEven in his distress the Aussie can't help being funny. Last weet a country digger who had been assisted by the trustees of the R.S.L. Amelioration fund ...
Article : 117 words"Roughy" O'Reilly's nickname fitted him like a glove. He was rough in his methods of fighting, whether with fists or with bayonet. He was rough in his gait ...
Article : 153 wordsThe section's prize dope was trying to put the hard word on the quarter bloke for a tin of butter. "But I gave you a large tin of butter the day before yesterday," ...
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Advertising : 70 wordsScene: Rouen railway station in 1915. A train carrying ammunition park details for Gallipoli—the Suvla stunt—was resting for breakfast when some tall Yanks ...
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Advertising : 73 wordsAmong a load of wouded brought to Alexandria were several Turks. Somehow their records had not been taken on Anzae Beach and there was no one on ...
Article : 107 wordsLondon newspapers reported last week that negotiations for the sale of the White Star Line, Ltd., to the Cunard Steamship Co., had broken down, but that fresh ...
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Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), Thu 12 Nov 1931, Page 2
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