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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

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39 Soldiers Injured By Car In Sydney Smash

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--Thirty-nine soldiers, including two officers, were injured when a car ran into a crowd of servicemen in a…

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100 Soldiers Walk Out Of Detention Camp

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--Early this evening a body of soldiers, numbering about 100, serving various terms, broke out of military…

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Re-Establishment Leave For Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 3

CANBERRA, Mon.--The War Cabinet to-night decided that reestablishment leave should be granted to service personnel in…

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War Prisoners' Wage Increase

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 3

CANBERRA, Tues.--There would be no additional charge against the Government if the employment of prisoners of war…

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British Liberals State Policy In War And Peace

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Tues.--Woe betide the Tory Party if it tried to exploit Mr. Churchill's prodigious services in its party interests,…

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Control of Prices May Continue After End of War

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tues.--No policy on the continuation of price control had yet been considered by the Government for…

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Woolgoolga Soldier Repatriated

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 3

Mrs. V. E. Alverson, of Woolgoolga, has received a cable from her son, Pte. Arthur Ellem, who has been a prisoner of war since…

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American Soldiers To Be Honoured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--Flags will be flown on Government buildings throughout Australia next Wednesday, United States "Memorial…

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'Haw Haw' Wounded By Captor

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.--The British traitor, William Joyce, whose broadcasts from Germany during the war led to his becoming known as "Lord Haw Haw."…

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Welcome Home Dorrigo Honours Discharged Personnel "Not Easy to Return to Civilian Life"

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 2

The Memorial Hall, on Friday evening. May 18, was the scene of the second district welcome home to discharged personnel of H. M. Forces…

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Australians Celebrate 5000 War Flights

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 6

Some time before they were due to take off on the squadrons' 5000th war flight, members of an Australian Lancaster unit,…

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Cost Of The War In Dollars

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thurs.--If all the money spent on this war since 1934 were distributed equally among all the people in…

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"This Is No Private War" Men Of The British Navy Welcomed By Nimitz

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 1

GUAM, Thurs.--Standing before the officers and men of the King George V. on the quarter deck of the giant battleship, Admiral Nimitz warned Britishers to…

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Australians Wounded at Tarakan

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 June 1945 · page 1

These wounded Australians, photographed at a base hospital, are members of the first Australian amphibious forces which landed on Tarakan, of the coast of Borneo…

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Post-war Railway Plan

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 June 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.--Included in the N.S.W. Government's big postwar railway plans is the electrification of the Sydney-Newcastle…

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Wounded Australians Play Draughts with Toes

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 June 1945 · page 3

This Australian Official photo shows Pte. C. D. Milles (Brisbane), on the left side, and Sergt. W. J. Kinninmont (Manly), playing draughts with their toes at a convalescent depot on Bougainville, Solomons. This is not a pastime, but a medical method of retaining damaged leg muscles…

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Earnings For War Charities

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 June 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sun.--The earnings from all public concerts given in Australia by Gracie Fields. English comedienne, will be given…

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Compile List Of Jap War Criminals

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 June 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday.--Lieut.-Col. Oldham, Australian representative on the War Crimes Conference, again drew attention to the need…

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Land Suitable for Soldier Settlement

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 June 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.--Particulars of 21 large estates in New South Wales, situated in districts where the average rainfall is from 27 to…

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Soldiers Charged With Assault

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 June 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.--Seven members of the A.I.F. appeared in the Parramatta Quarter Sessions to-day charged with assault,…

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