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Conflicts of War

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Conflicts of War

  • Soldiers

    • Trooper GW Bolding

      On Sunday afternoon last, an In Memoriam Service, to unveil the tablet erected to perpetuate the memory of the late Trooper G. W. Bolding was…

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    • Private T.H. Holmes

      Private T H Holmes, of Morwell, who was one of the first volunteers for service in South Africa, and one of the last of the…

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    • Trooper Alex Macmillan

      On Tuesday night Trooper Alex. Macmillan, a member of Cameron’s Scouts, returned to Morwell. Although it was only known an hour or so before the…

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    • Sergeant Michael T. McDonald

      To say that deep sympathy was felt for the deceased’s parents and relatives all over the district when the sad news became known that Sergeant…

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    • Nadenbousch & Cook

      There was hardly any standing room on the Morwell station platform on Tuesday, where the people congregated by the hundred on the off chance that…

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  • Remembering

    • Morwell War Memorial

      Morwell War Memorial on its original site at the level crossing between Commercial Road and Station Street (later Princes Highway). It was later moved to…

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    • Tributes

      Tributes of Letters, Articles & Notices Published in The Morwell Advertiser

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    • Welcoming Home Our Returned Soldiers

      A public meeting was held in the Mechanics’, Morwell, last night, for the purpose of making arrangements for a public welcome home to those soldiers…

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    • Returning Soldiers

      According to the “Argus” the transport Orient arrived at Albany on Saturday morning with nine officers and 412 men of the Victorian Imperial Regiment; also…

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    • Boer War Soldiers and Civilians

      Soldiers and civilians who lived in the Shire of Morwell before the Boer War in South Africa, on enlistment and after the war.

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    • Boer War 1899 1902

      The Boer War between the British Empire and the two Boer republics – the South African Republic (later known as Transvaal) and the Orange Free…

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