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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 16, 1916
Page
4
A fragment from a wartime diary describes soldiers in dugouts near the front, blending grim reality with humor. It recalls a colonel and subalterns in a candlelit shelter as shells fall nearby, and notes how war presses youths toward maturity.
A reflective piece on how wartime humor, celebrity icons like Charlie Chaplin, and public mood mask deeper currents. It notes that despite cheerful fronts among soldiers and civilians, old barriers dissolve, anchorage is lost, and a broader shift in character and history begins as war endures.
At a Shire Council meeting a letter from W B Breese protests the proposed discontinuance of the Barrington Bretti Nowendoe mail line noting reduced service, growing local mail volume, and potential rate impact. The item also reports the death of Sir George Turner near Melbourne at 65.
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