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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1947

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Bathurst Properties Under Review for Soldier Settlement

National Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 3

Following his address on soldier settlement at Bathurst Diggers' Club last night the Minister for Lands, Mr Dunn, was asked what…

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Post-War Germany Will Use More Australian Wool

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 5

When all countries gradually recover from the ill-effects of the war, demand for wool should be more widespread than ever…

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Bathurst Coursing Club Appointment Returned Soldier Raises Objection Official Query Received

National Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 2

At a committe meeting of the Bathurst Mechanical Coursing Club a letter to the President from the officer in charge of the Attorney Generals…

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7,000 Miles Hitchhike by Soldier

National Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: A 19 years old British soldier hitch-hiked 7000 miles from Singapore to Liverpool to see his family. He boarded an…

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War on Poker Machines

National Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Police Commissioner (Mr. MacKay) has asked the State Government to grant special authority to begin a…

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Monthly Meeting Of Dunedoo War Memorial Hospital Board

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 20

The January monthly meeting of the Hoard members was held on Thursday, 9th. There was a good attendance of directors…

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Returned Soldiers' League

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 6

The annual meeting of the Portland sub branch of the R.S.S.A.I.L.A. was held in the School of Arts on Tuesday night. In the absence of the…

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The Aquitania Last Load of War Brides A Striking Record

National Advocate · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday : The Aquitania is due at Bahfax today with her last load of Canadian troops and war brides…

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Accidently Wounded

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 2

Mr Eric Miller, of Parkes, who resigned from the Bathurst Ambulance Service recently, was accidently wounded in the left arm, when a pea rifle…

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£100,000 for Anzac House Site

National Advocate · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY. Tuesday: State Cabinet today voted £100,000 to pay for the site on which Anzac House, Sydney, will be built…

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Anzac House to Be Built in Martin Place Sydney

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 4

Slate Cabinet has decided to vote £ 100,000 towards the purchase of a site for Anzac House in Sydney…

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London’s “Blitz Flower” Hid War Scars of Great City

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 7

Had London been an ancient city of the Orient, the story of the “Blitz” Flower would have been woven…

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Returned From War, Orange Man Finds Wife Living with His Brother

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 5

After serving overseas with the AIF for two years, an Orange man returned home to find that his wife had been living with his brother as man and wife. At the Orange District…

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Anzac House Plan Diggers' Spokesman Thanks Govt

National Advocate · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The new Anzac House in Martin Place will be an inaugural part of the replanned Macquarie street, the Premier…

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Scotland Yard's Ceaseless War On Crime

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 4

"I READ nothing but detective stories now. You don't know any new good ones, do you? The speaker was Somerset Maugham, master of the novel and the play, that scourger of society and denouncer of women, that sardonic…

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War on Rabbits No Quarter Should Be Given

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 3

The stock inspector indulged in some straight talk at the last meeting of the Dubbo P.P. Board. "I believe that softness and…

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War-torn Greece May Have Peace Soon LONDON

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 12

There are signs that peace in Greece in coming nearer. The Premier, Mr. Soldaris, has resigned and six party leaders…

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British Soldier Hanged in Germany Berlin

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1

A British soldier, F. J. Upson, R.A.S.C., has been hanged for the murder of a 60-year-old German woman in the French, sector of Berlin…

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Lithgow's War Memorial

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 5

It has been said that the people of Lithgow are pot aware of the proposal to erect a War Memorial, and having this m view, it was thought…

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Young Ex-soldier Dies After Bashing Sydney

Central Western Daily · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 1

A postmortem examination on Roy Leake Benton, 20, today revealed that death was due to baernorrhage…

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