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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1945

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Two District Men Died as Prisoners of War

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 October 1945 · page 2

Word has been received by Mrs. Ruby Parker, of Crookwell for some tine a hospital patient in Goulburn,…

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War Criminals

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 October 1945 · page 2

CANBERRA: In Parliament to-day the Minister for Defence. Mr. Beasley, gave notice that tomorrow he will ask leave to bring…

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Welcome Home Next Monday Night

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 4 October 1945 · page 2

The first public welcome home to returned servicemen and women will be held on Monday night next at the Memorial…

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Indonesians and Japs Figure in Clash 50 Killed : 150 Wounded

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 4 October 1945 · page 2

BATAVIA, Thursday: Fifty persons have been killed and 150 wounded as the result of a clash between Japs and Indonesian Nationalists. The statement has been released in London by the Dutch…

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Post-war Works, State Government's Programme

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 8 October 1945 · page 2

The New South Wales State Government hopes to launch, before the end of this month a stupendous…

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Trial to Start Notice to War Criminals

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 October 1945 · page 3

BERLIN, Monday: Hitler's former deputy, Rudolph Hess, whose flight to Britain during the…

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Britain's Food Queues Longer Worse Than in War

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 October 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday: Britain's food position is wors than during the war, according to housewives—who should know. They are unanimous that queues are longer and the variety of…

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Initial Recovery in Britain's Post-War Woollen Trade

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 October 1945 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: British export trade for the first six months of this year showed the initial recovery in post-war trade. The advance in business does not carry the trade to anything approaching pre-war…

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District War Memorial In the Melting Pot

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 October 1945 · page 1

The District War Memorial project is in the melting pot, as it were. The question is to be submitted to a public…

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Welcome Home to Returning Prisoners of War

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 11 October 1945 · page 2

It is understood that pte. Reg Barnes will arrive home by the 4.45 p. m. train on Saturday, and Pte Bill Day and Lieut Graham…

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Public Welcome Home Certificates Presented Large Gathering

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 October 1945 · page 1

The first of a series of public welcomes home to men and women of the Forces, held in the Soldiers Memorial Hall on…

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War Loan Figures 25 Subscribers; £9110

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 October 1945 · page 2

At the present rate of progress, Yass will be hard pressed to fill its Fourth Victory Loan quotas…

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Post-war Stoves Crated in U.s

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 October 1945 · page 3

Employees at the Cribben & Sexton Company in Chicago, in the mid-western State of illinois, put the finishing touches on stoves as the civilian product is crated for shipment of August 17, 1945, three days after President Truman announced Japan's…

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Yass Premier Band Visits Canberra For War Loan Rally

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 October 1945 · page 2

The Yass Premier Band will render an afternoon’s programme at the District Hospital next Sunday, October 14…

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Chamber of Commerce Year’s Activities Reviewed Post-War Problems Discussed

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 October 1945 · page 1

The annual general meeting of members of. the Yass Chamber of Commerce was held in the lounge room of the Comemrcial Hotel on…

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Some Notes on Current Topics Bunnerong Business: Soldiers' Prospects: Canberra Guest House

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 October 1945 · page 2

A black out is threatened on over a million people because of the Bunnerong strike of a few hundred persons. Two things appear clear from this dispute. Labour Governments can't or won't govern. Trade unions can't or…

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British Soldiers Appreciate Hospitality of Yass Citizens

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 October 1945 · page 2

Of late, British servicemen have been a familiar sight in the streets of Yass. Many are returning prisonors of war. One of their…

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Cost of War to Germans

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 October 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday: It is officially estimated that the total losses suffered by the German armed forces during…

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Posponed Again Trials of War Criminals

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 October 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Friday: The trials at Nuremburg of Field-Marshall Goering and other Nazi war criminals will not…

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Soldier's Return

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 October 1945 · page 3

In Rhinelander, Wis., Lieut. Donald Kerr got home from the European 'theatre early in the morning, slipped quietly into his…

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