End of War
SAIGON, Wednesday— The Indo-China war, which lasted seven years and eight months, ended at 8…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1954
365 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 13 of 19
War Service Homes
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Action had been taken to speed up the handling of applications for War Service homes in Australia, it was stated at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Treatment for War Veterans
SYDNEY. Wednesday: War veterans and widows had died niter being unable to get repatriation week-end treatment, R.S.L. Congress was told…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Build Your Business on British Bedford. War on 'Hoppers
Among officials present at a grasshopper destruction demonstration arranged by Dubbo PP Board were Dir. H. Small (chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anzac Day
At the R.S.L. Congress in Sydney last week it was decided to protest against the holding of organised sports…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Find Wounded Man
Orange police last night visited a Cato Street residence and subsequently took a man to Orange Base…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Services Mark Pacific War's End Ninth Anniversary
SYDNEY, Sunday: Special service fit shrines and memorials in Australia today marked the ninth anniversary of the end of the war in the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mudgee Soldiers' Club Bowlers Had the Time of their Lives in Match Against Wellington Diggers
Twenty-eight bright young men from the Mudgee Soldiers. Bowling Club went to Wellington for a match against the "digger" players of that town, on August 8, and despite the fact that…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Nazi Horror Story War Cam? Crimes
LONDON, Tuesday: A story of how 12 million men, women and children were butchered to death by the Germans during World…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Neville Soldier Settlers Want Access Road
The State Government is to be asked to give financial assistance towards the provision of an access road to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mudgee Soldiers Club Bowlers Secure Victory Over Gulgong After Really Good Game
On Sunday last four rinks of bowlers from the Mudgee Soldiers Club ambled out to Gulgong and after a grand game, they defeated the foe by four points…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →"Reds" Scare in Red River Delta Propaganda War
SAIGON, Sunday: French authorities in Saigon say the Vietminh communists appear to be winning a propaganda war for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Million South Koreans Lost Lives in War Consul’s address to the Royal Empire Society
An estimated two million South Korean men, women and children lost their lives and 100,000 children were left orphans when their parents were either killed or kidnapped during the Korean war. After the war there were 300,000 war widows, 100,000 crippled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Godfather to orphans of war
Recently the Governor-General (Sir William Slim) opening the remodelled Legacy House in Newcastle, said that Australia’s Legacy was the most efficient body caring for families of ex-servicemen he had ever known. This was a compliment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gang War Crime Murder of Mobster
CHICAGO. Mon.—Authorities feared yesterday that the killing of two ex-Capone mobsters in three days marked the start of a "full…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Experienced Soldiers in Weekend Army Exercise
Two veterans of the heroic evacuation of Dunkirk and an Australian prisoner of the Germans in the last war were among the C.M.F. and National Servicemen who carried out a highly successful convoy training exercise into the Central West at the weekend. The exercise, which was organised…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sacked Over War Book
Lord Russell, 59 the British Army’s Assistant Judge Advocate-General has been forced to resign…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Portland Section Proposal for War Memorial
On Friday afternoon, a deputation from the R.S.L., comprising Mr. J. Curran (president.), Mr. R. Millmore…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →From Soldiering to Insurance Selling
One of the fastest runners in the British Army during the last war was Staff Sergeant Bert Perman according to the pipe smoking little Englishman himself, who is spending a few days in Lithgow "sniffing the atmosphere." He says he became the fastest runner when keeping "just 400 yards ahead of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sex Slaying--soldier Held by Lithgow Police
A man, answering the description of a soldier wanted for questioning in connection with the slaying of a woman whose nude body was found in a Sydney hotel yesterday, was located by two Lithgow policemen this morning. The man, dressed in a soldier's uniform, was first seen by Det. Theo Stephenson and Sgt…
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