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The wars & local soldiers, 1954

185 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 10

Arrangements for Anzac Day in Grafton

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 2

New arrangements for Anzac Day in Grafton were made at a meeting of the Graflon .R.S.L. last night…

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R.S.L Anzac Essay Contest

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 6

Grafton R.S.L subbranch again this year will conduct its Anzac eassy competition for…

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Red Dean Warns On Atom War

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 1

LONDON, Mon. -- The Red Dean of Canterbury last night warned of the disastrous consequences of…

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War Service Land Settlement R.S.L. to Seek Serious Action

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 3

A The Minister for Lands will be asked by the Grafton R.S.L. to urge on Cabinet the vital need for more serious Government action in war service land…

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Anzac Day at Coramba

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 3

CORAMBA--Arrangements for Anzac Day in Coramba were made at a meeting of the Coramba…

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Onion War Truce

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.--The Supreme Court to-day ordered a truce in the onion war until the outcome of…

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Gaol For Murder Of War Bride

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1954 · page 1

NORFOLK (Virginia), Fri.--A former United States navy petty officer was convicted of the…

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Missing Soldier May Be Alive

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1954 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Friday.-- Police are investigating the possibility that the missing soldier in the Stockton…

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Tug-of-war Draw

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 7

Draw for the tug-of-war series at the Grafton Cycle Club's fixture at McKittrick Park Oval on Friday night…

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President Praises Indo-Chinese Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Monday. -- President Eisenhower yesterday praised the defenders of the Indo-Chinese garrison of Bien Dien Phu…

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Anzac Day Sport

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 7

No sporting areas under the control of Lismore City Council will be allowed to be used for organised sport…

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War Babies

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 3

SEOUL.--The South. Korean Government has arranged to send to the United States 266 children…

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A War We Forget At Our Peril

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 2

ALMOST forgotten by a casual world which is now startled only by the horrifying implications of the latest hydrogen bomb test, a grim,…

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Flames Trap Two Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 3

PERTH. Wed-- Two soldiers were severely burned to-day, when flames trapped them in a narrow tunnel at…

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Anzac Day Public Holiday

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 3

The New South Wales Premier's Department has notified the State branch of the R.S.L. That under the terms of the…

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Dorrigo Motor Auction Shows Price Decline of Pre-war Cars

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 8

A crowd estimated to be about 300 attended the combined Motor Traders Auction held in Burbidges' Showroom, Dorrigo, last Saturday, March 27. The motor auction, the first…

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To Prevent War

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1954 · page 2

PARIS, Fri.--The North Atlantic Alliance was formed to prevent war and not Wage it, General Alfred Gruenther said to-day…

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Lead To War

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sun.--Admission of Communist China to the United Nations would lead almost inevitably to a…

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Moon Landscape If Atomic War

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday.--Professor Hans Thirring, the man who thought up the atom bomb, said he visualised the bomb in 1946 as no more than a detonator for…

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Prayer For Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 2

Sir.--I think it's time church leaders called for earliest prayer to ask God's aid to help those gallant…

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