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Bush to battle

  By SONJA KOREMANS TENS of thousands of people will march though major cities on Anzac Day but there is nothing more enduring than the legend...

Disaster was a success

By SONJA KOREMANS THESE young adventurers may well be the police officers, ambos and firies of the future. They are among a group of...

Trek lasts a lifetime

By SONJA KOREMANS THEIRS was an unusual first date. A Warwick couple’s evening stroll to get to know one another after meeting at a...

Gone but not forgotten

  By SONJA KOREMANS THE centenary of the Anzac legend will be commemorated with great pride by these three young local descendants of World War I...

Peace prize win

By SONJA KOREMANS A WAR veteran from Warwick has won the distinguished national 2015 RSL Anzac Peace Prize. Fred Hyde, a 2015 Member of the Order...

Girls on show

By JOYCE MARSH (WOODENBONG CORRESPONDENT) AMY Kearney has been named Miss Woodenbong Showgirl in the newly returned competition held at the show on...

Field day for punters

IT was blue skies, a strong contingent of local horses to cheer on, and eager punters at Warwick’s RSL Memorial Club Race Day Allman...

Name popped on poppies

  ANZAC Day commemorations began early in Warwick this week with residents paying tribute to World War I veterans during an exhibition in the lead-up...

Soldiers settled on the land

  By ROBERT MACMAURICE SOLDIER settlements were seen as one of many ways to repatriate soldiers back from service in World War I. The Pikedale (Amiens), Stanthorpe...

Treating their broken minds

  By GEORGIA WESTGARTH IT’S been more than 80 years since the Kyoomba Sanatorium last treated returned World War I soldiers and this year the Stanthorpe...

Centenary surge

  By SONJA KOREMANS RECORD crowds are expected at Warwick region's Anzac Day services to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli landings where Darling Downs soldiers...

In Brief

In brief Dinner date In last week’s Free Times, the date of A Dinner of Friendship in Stanthorpe to mark the centenary of Gallipoli...

Twenty20 to begin in Stanthorpe

Stanthorpe Cricket’s regular 40 over competition enters its mid-season hiatus to make way for The Lanza Family T20. The season has been a bit disjointed...