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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1946

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The Diggers Own Club to Be Erected March and Ceremony for Anzac Day

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 2

It was unanimously carried at the recent monthly meeting of the Dorrigo sub-brartch R.S.S. & A.I.L.A. that the Diggers…

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Grafton Soldier In Japan

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 2

Cpl. K. E. Eggins has written his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. O. T. Eggins, of Little Mary street, Grafton, that he has arrived in…

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Soldier Settlement In Northern Territory

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thurs.—Big estates in the Northern Territory would be subdivided to provide opportunities for soldier settlers…

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Wounded Man Found In Train

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 1

LITHGOW, Friday.—An unidentified man was taken from the central western express at Lithgow this afternoon with a…

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Lower Coldstream Welcome Home

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 3

THE Lower Coldstream Hall recently was crowded for a welcome home to local ex-serviosmen. Palms, flowers and red, white and blue streamers decorated the building. A guard of honour formed by…

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Welcome Home For Communists

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun:—Headed by a Pipe Band and an A.I.F. winner of the Military Medal, who carried a red torch, about 400…

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Bellingen War Committee

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 4

Bellingen Shire War and Patriotic Committee at its final meeting before disbanding allocated £250 to the trust fund of the…

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Single Atomic Blow Will End A War

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Monday.—A prediction that any major war in future would be settled from the air with a single blow from…

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Australian One of War's Great Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 March 1946 · page 5

Australian Lieut.- General Rowell was one of the…

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R.a.a.f. Can Wear Uniforms on Anzac Day

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 March 1946 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wed.—Former members of the R.A.A.F. will be permitted to wear service uniforms in Anzac Day marches and…

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City of London Burnt Out People Carry on with Indomitable Courage the Awful Tragedy of War

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 29 March 1946 · page 3

A first hand impression of what London and its heroic people went through during the six years of war is given in a letter…

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Three Soldiers Welcomed Home At Lawrence

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 March 1946 · page 2

A LARGE crowd of local residents assembled in the Lawrence Hall recently to extend a welcome home to Sgt. K. McQueen, A.I.F., Cpl. C. Superain, A.I.F. and Pte. J. Smith A.I.F. When the chairman, Mr. D…

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Chatsworth War Memorial Meeting

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 6

The annual meeting of Chatsworth District War Memorial Committee was held in the Temperance Hall. Mr. J. Ryan…

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No Major War For Next 30 To 40 Years

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 1

PRAGUE, Sun.—There will be no major war for the next 30 to 40 years. This prediction was made by the…

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Speak Your Mind Letters To The Editor How To End War

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 2

Sir,—With the blood of a numberless host slain in the second world war to end war still warm upon the ground the possibility…

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Not for Returned Men

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 4

A letter read at the Tweed Heads and Coolangatta R.S.L. sub-branch at a meeting [?] clear that Government [?]…

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Post-War Banana

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 5

Twelve-year-old Daphne Richards was the coveted eater of Britain's first post-war banana. Every child under 18 in the…

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Nazis Prepared For Defeat Early In War

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.—Germany prepared, from 1939 economic bridgeheads for the re-establishment of foreign trade, in the event of…

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Care In Acquisition Of Land For Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—the Lands Department intended to be very careful, in the matter of land acquisitions, as it would not depart…

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Welcome Home

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 3

As announced in our advertising columns, the Dorrigo Football Club is staging a grand ball and welcome home to all ex-servicemen of the…

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