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

The wars & local soldiers, 1945

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Welcome Home To Pte. E. ("Snowy") Mason

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 1

About 100 members of Baxters Welfare Club gathered at the Southern Cross Hall on Saturday evening to tender a welcome…

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Communists in China Plans for All-Out Civil War

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 3

CHUNGKING, Wednesday: Reports from Yenan, the headquarters of the Chinese Communist Army, assert…

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Wreaths on Honour Roll

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 2

Members of the Memorial Hall Council accepted a recommendation of the secretary that relatives of the…

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Soldiers Poppy Day Appeal

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 4

As the Red Poppy is the symbol of remembrance of the war dead, the same poppy, too, is an injunction to all to do right and fair for…

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Soldiers’ Memorial and Literary Institute Council

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 2

At the monthly meeting of the council of the Yass District Soldiers’ Memorial and Literary Institute on Tuesday night last, the…

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Japanese War Crimes

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 9 November 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Friday: The War Crimes Commission, commenting on the Australian report that Japanese soldiers would be tried…

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Conference of Country Women Problem Before the World To-day Greed and Graft Mean Another War

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 9 November 1945 · page 2

The afternoon session of the C.W.A. Group Conference held in the Town Hall yesterday was attended by the State president. Mrs. MacSmith; the Mayor, Ald. P. R. D. Hollis; Cr. S. Hunt, president…

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Methodist Synod Crookwell Aftermath of War Is in Our Minds No Man Lives to Himself

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 12 November 1945 · page 2

The annual Methodist Synod of the Goulburn District of the Church was held at Crookwell on Tuesday and Wednesday last. The eleven, ministerial representatives met under the chairman of the district, Rev. G. R…

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Battle for Sourabaya Atmosphere of War, Says Officer Indonesians Say That Many Have Been Killed

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 12 November 1945 · page 3

BATAVIA, Monday: "There is no question of this being a brush. There is a definite atmosphere of war," said British Lieut-Colonel Roy Oliver, after returning to Batavia from Sourabaya with the first full…

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Armistice Eve Soldiers’ Night R.S.L. Welcome to Servicemen

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 12 November 1945 · page 2

The welcome home to discharged servicemen and returned P.O.W. by the R.S.S. & A.I.L.A was an outstanding…

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German War Factory Blown Up

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 November 1945 · page 3

FRANKFURT, Tuesday: the Kaufbeuren smokeless [?]owder plant, the first major German war factory to be…

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17-Year Old Burglar a War Legacy

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 November 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Seventeen-year-old Frank James Dempsey pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions to-day to three…

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War Time Job Is at an End Goulburn A.T.C. Squadron Disbands

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 November 1945 · page 2

Its wartime task fulfilled, No. 46 Squadron Air Training Corps ceased activity on Saturday last, when a parade and, farewell social officially terminated the unit's existence. Officers cadets and several…

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Taralga Welcomes Home Her First Returned Men

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 November 1945 · page 4

More than 400 people crowded the Federal Hall to give a tumultuous welcome to Taralga's first batch of returned men. As the boys marched into the…

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Honour Roll

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 November 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: The following appear in the R.A.A.F. casualty list issued, to-day. Previously reported as missing and now presumed…

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Local and General War Gratuity

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 19 November 1945 · page 2

An official announcement appears on page 4 of this issue, giving the main features of the War Gratuity Act…

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War Criminals on Trial Proceedings Will Start To-day

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 November 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday: The trial of major German war criminals is expected to commence to-morrow, as planned, Says Reuter's Nuremburg correspondent. Although the chief Russian prosecutor, Rukendko, is ill…

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Department of the Treasury (Defence Division) Victoria Barracks, Melbourne War Gratuity Act, 1945 Application for War Gratuity are invited from persons entitled under the War Gratuity Act, 1945. How to Obtain Application Forms

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 19 November 1945 · page 4

Application forms are obtainable as under:— Navy, Army and Air Force personnel now being discharged—At…

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More Fighting Feared In Batavia Indonesians Declare War on Britain

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 November 1945 · page 3

BATAVIA, Tuesday: British military officials fear that a new wave of fighting might break out in central Java, where thousands of armed Indonesian Nationalist are massing, as the Indonesian radio…

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War Criminals' Trial In Germany Ribbentrop Asks Vansittart For a Reference

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 November 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: The former German Foreign Minister, von Ribbentrop, has applied, through his counsel, Dr. Fritz Haut, for a number of prominent British citizens to testify on his behalf at the Nuremberg trial of Nazi leaders, says The Times correspondent at Nuremberg. They include Lords Vansittart,…

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