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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1946

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Soldier Settlement at Ebor? Local Repat. Committee on the Move Old Officers Re-elected at Annual Meeting

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 29 November 1946 · page 1

At the annual meeting of the Dorrigo Repatriation Committee it was resolved to request the Repatriation Commission to…

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Death Sentence For Jap War Criminal

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 December 1946 · page 1

BATAVIA. Sun. -- The Lieut Governor of the Netherlands East Indies (Dr. Van Mook) has confirmed the death sentence by…

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Optometrists' Conference War-Time Demand For Spectacles Heavy

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 December 1946 · page 3

"DURING the war years the demand for spectacles far exceeded supply," said. Mr. J. H. Prince, F.B.O.A., F.S.M.C., of England, guest speaker at the regional conference of North Coast and Tablelands optometrists, which opened in Grafton on Saturday night…

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Would Be Considered Declaration Of War

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 December 1946 · page 1

TEHERAN, Monday.--Premier Sultanch has again sent a message to the Governor of Azerbaijan province (Djavid) warning him of the Government's decision to send troops into Azerbaijan to supervise the elections…

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£20,000 War Memorial For Armidale

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 December 1946 · page 2

Representatives from 21 Armidale organisations formulated initial plans for the establishment of Armidale's £20,000 war…

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Too Many Forgetting The War, Says Repatriation Speaker

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 December 1946 · page 3

KEMPSEY, Wed.--"I will explode the myth that returning serviceman get everything they want in a square manner…

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Experimented On War Prisoners

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 December 1946 · page 1

HAMBURG, Friday.--Children born in Ravensbruck women's concentration camp, were killed at birth. Doctors experimentally operated and forcibly chloroformed women who later found they had been sterilised or had bones…

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Pipe Organ As War Memorial At St. Andrew's

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 December 1946 · page 2

A war memorial appeal, with the immediate object of providing a new pipe organ at St. Andrew's Church. Grafton, will be…

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War Veterans' Art Union

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--War Veterans' Art Union No. 8 was drawn to-night. The first three prizewinners sold themselves the…

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Soldier Preference Decision

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 December 1946 · page 2

Stele branch of the R.S.L. will be congratulated by the Grafton sub-branch on its successful effort obtain soldier preference…

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Death For War Crimes

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 December 1946 · page 1

ATHENS, Tues. -- A special court has sentenced to death the German Governors of Crete, Generals Bruno Brauer and…

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Glen Innes War Memorial

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 2

Without making a definite choice a public meeting of 200 in the Glen Innes Town Hali decided that the 1939-45 war…

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Reprisal By British Soldiers In Italy

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 1

PADUA (Northern Italy), Thurs.--about 100 British soldiers armed with truncheons and sticks stormed through the centre of…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. AND R.A.C.A. Pst-war Cabin Camps

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 2

The NRMA reports that the first two of the post-war cabin-camps' being specially constructed in N.S.W. on ambitious lines so popular…

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Undeclared War in Greece Says Premier

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 December 1946 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS, Friday.--Asserting that Greece is experiencing undeclared war, the Greek Prime Minister (Constantin Tsaldaris) yesterday accused Bulgaria, Yugo-Slavia and Albania, before the Security Council, of waging a systematic plan of…

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Citizens' Council Anzac Park Improvements

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1946 · page 8

It was mentioned at the monthly meeting of Coffs Citizens' Council that efforts to secure certain of the buildings on Coffs Aerodrome for…

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Cowper-Brushgrove War Memorial

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 December 1946 · page 3

COWPER, Fri.--After a lengthy discussion on a suitable war memorial for Cowper-Brushgrove, the War Memorial Committee finally…

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Franco Says World Faces State of War

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 December 1946 · page 1

MADRID, Mon.--"The world faces a state of war, which may be declared at any time," declared General Franco,…

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Soldier Settlement At Dorrigo-Fibor

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 2

DORRIGO, Tuesday.--At the annual meeting of the Dorrigo Repatriation Committee, it was resolved to request the…

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Disabled Soldiers' Association Seeks Funds For New Club

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 6

The Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association of Australia, N.S.W. Branch, is appealing for £25,000 in order to…

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