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The wars & local soldiers, 1947

408 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 21

Soldiers Go Back to School Dorrigo Boy Attends

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 2

Australian soldiers in Japan have confounded Shakespeare with his seven stages of man by returning to school. What is more, there is…

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No Sitting on Anzac Day

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 April 1947 · page 1

CANBERRA, Fri.—The Federal Parliament will not sit next Friday, Anzac Day. It will meet on Tuesday and adjourn on…

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Honour Roll Unveiling At Woodford Leigh

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 2

WOODFORD LEIGH, Fri.— The main business at the last meeting of the Woodford Leigh P. and C. Association concerned…

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Dispensation For Anzac Day

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Cardinal Gilroy announced to-day that Roman Catholics in the Archdiocese of Sydney may eat…

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Anzac Day Parade For Australians In Tokio

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 1

TOKIO, Sunday.—Australian troops will stage an Anzac Day parade in Tokio on April 25, according to an official…

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Tinge Of Shame With Gratitude On Anzac Day

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.—Our sense of gratitude on Anzac Day should be tinged with shame, said the Rev. Kenneth Jones, C.B.E.,…

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Industrialists Face War Trial

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 1

NUREMBERG, Sunday.—The first trial of Nazi industrialists indicted for war crimes opened yesterday before a four-man United States tribunal. Chief of the six defendants…

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Baptist Speaker Civil War In India Worse When England Withdraws

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 2

"There is civil war in India now, but it will be worse when England withdraws from the country," said Miss F. M…

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Anzac Broadcast

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Mon.—Field Marshal Montgomery will broadcast his Anzac Day talk over the B.B.C. Pacific service at 5.30 p.m. on…

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Anzac Day Will be Fittingly Observed

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 1

Arrangements for the observance of Anzac Day this year at Coffe Harbour wilt be vested in a special significance for It will 'be the first…

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Anzac Park Contributions Coming in Well

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 1

The three trustees of Anzac Park (Cr. W. H. T. Riding atof Miessrs. R. C. Bray and C. H. Everingham) are very pleased with the…

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Churchill Gives View on War

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.—"My view is: War Is not inevitable, but it would be inevitable if' Britain and. the United, States followed the policy of appeasement and one-sided disarmament which brought about two wars."…

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Will Continue War Against Rebellion

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 1

ATHENS, Monday.—The Greek Government intended to continue the war against the rebellion which was a "double struggle against internal treason and against external pressure," declared the Deputy Premier (M. Tsaldaris) in a public…

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Japs Just Heard War Had Ended

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 April 1947 · page 1

PELELIU, Tuesday.—Twenty-six Japanese soldiers and sailors who had hidden in the hills since the fall of Peleliu, over two years ago, marched from the jungle yesterday, and ceremonially surrendered…

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Anzac Day In Japan

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 April 1947 · page 1

TOKIO, Wed.—British military authorities to-day issued a statement outlining the full Anzac Day commemoration programme…

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Arrangements For Anzac Day

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 April 1947 · page 2

Anzac Day will be fittingly observed at Grafton and South Grafton to-morrow by the respective sub-branches of the…

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Economic Blunder In Accepting Post-War U.S. Loans

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 April 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wed. — British Labour Party economists are convinced that Britain made a grave economic blunder in accepting the…

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Anzac Day

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 1

While Austral sun was shining, Golden as the wattle bloom, One long past April day Austral blood was flowing,…

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Anzac Day Reunion

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 2

The annual Anzac Day reunion of the Grafton branch of the R.S.L. will take place at the Drill Hall, at 6.30 to-night…

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The Spirit Of Anzac

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 2

WE are not a demonstrative people Sentimentality and flag-waving have little part in our make-up, but the things which are sacred to us move us mightily in secret, and Anzac Day is perhaps the one commemoration which deeply stirs us…

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