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

The wars & local soldiers, 1948

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Victory Impossible In Atom War

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 3

General H. Arnold wartime Chief of the U.S. Air…

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Goulburn Witness in War Trials Death Sentence For Six Japanese

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 2

Captain J. W. J. Chisholm, a former prisoner of war, and a resident of the Goulburn district, was an important witness in the trials of the two Japanese, Akira Yanagizawa and Masaji Sekihara…

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Ration Cut For Soldiers

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday: Servicemen in Britain are to receive less meat, bacon, ham and cheese in their rations, but more…

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Granting of War Gratuities

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 2 February 1948 · page 1

Yass sub-branch of the R.S.L. will ask that war gratuities be granted to ex-servicemen requiring finance for the purchase or…

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1900 Applications for Two Soldier Blocks in District

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 3

More than 1900 ex-servicemen will contest the ballots for the Hillcrest and and Currandooley War Service land settlement estates. "Hillerest" Estate which will…

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Alexander on El Alamein Official Report Of War's Great Turning Point

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 February 1948 · page 7

LONDON. Thursday: What is probably the most dramatic dispatch of the Second World War—Field Marshal Viscount Alexander's report on the El Alamein-Tunis campaign from August 10, 1942,…

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850 in Ballot for 6 Soldier Blocks

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 February 1948 · page 1

The secretary of the Goulburn sub-branch of the R.S.L. (Mr. F. F. Gulse) stated to-day that 850 of the 949…

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Names Required For Honour Roll

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 1

Information regarding names of Yass and District Junior Farmer Club members ex-members, who served…

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War Service Land Settlement “Bobundara” Estate—cooma

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 3

Attention is invited to a notification in the Government Gazette of 23rd January, 1948, setting apart ten (10) blocks on…

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War Service Land Settlement “Yarrowitch” Estate Walcha

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 3

Attention is invited to a notification in the Government Gazette 23rd January, 1948 setting apart seventeen (17) blocks…

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Tito on War Americans Attacked

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 February 1948 · page 2

BELGRADE, Tuesday: "There will be no war because the people do not want war," said Marshal Tito, in…

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Arrangement for Anzac Day

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 1

Arrangements for this year’s Anzac Day commemoration in Yass were discussed at last meeting of Yass…

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A War of Nerves In Jerusalem

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 5

JERUSALEM, Thursday: Family groups yesterday began to evacuate Jerusalem changer spots as Jews and…

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Honour Roll High School Tribute

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 1

The Goulburn High School will purchase a plaque to honour ex-students who fell during the 1939-45 war…

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Early Granting of War Gratuities

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 3

Yass sub-branch of the R. S. L. will ask that war gratuities be grafted to ex-Servicemen requiring finance for the purchase or erection of homes…

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Cowra at War with Birds

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 8

SYDNEY: Thousands of sparrows and starlings are overwhelming the New South Wales town of Cowra, and the local…

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Rugby News War Memorial Committee Meets Question Of Cricket Material

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 3

A meeting, of the Rugby Memorial Fund was held on January 17 to iron out a little misunderstanding regarding cricket material…

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Public Support for Memorial Glub at Boorowa Is "Falling Flat" Returned Soldiers' League Move To Establish Temporary Club

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 1

THE PUBLIC'S SUPPORT TOWARDS SUBSCRIBING TO THE FUND FOR THE ERECTION OF A MODERN SOLDIERS MEMORIAL CLUB AT BOOROWA WAS "FALLING FLAT" AND THEY SHOULD BE INFLUENCED TO GIVE MORE SUPPORT TO THE…

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Mr Sheahan Disowns Rosy Circular Minister's Views On Soldier Settlement Federal Department Comes In For Vigorous Dressing Down

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 February 1948 · page 1

"I repudiate it, I condemn it and I despise it," says the Minister for and (Mr. W. F. Shealtan) referring to a Department of Post War Reconstruction circular, portion of which was published recently in which a rosy distorted picture of soldier settlement was painted…

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Govt. Soldier Settlement Mr. Sheahan Replies To Criticism

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 16 February 1948 · page 3

The Minister for Lands (Mr. W. F. Sheahan), in a letter to the “Tribune Courier,” replies to criticisms of…

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