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

The wars & local soldiers, 1952

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Boorowa War Memorial Committee Elected Assets Total £3,015

Boorowa News · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 5

The Boorowe and District War Memorial Fund last Wednesday night elected its officers for the ensuing year…

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War Memorial Fund To Sell Valuable River Block Action Follows Requests By Prospective Buyers

Boorowa News · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 1

Following requests to lease or buy the Boorowa District War Memorial Fund's five and a half acre rich river block near the bridge on the Young Road The Fund Committee has decided to sell…

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War Memorial Fund Acts To Have Club House Building Commenced Co-operation Between Ex-Service Club And Memorial Fund Sought

Boorowa News · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 1

The War Memorial Fund Committee at its meeting in the Council Chambers last Wednesday night decided to take action to commence the building of the Memorial Club and Community Centre in Market Street. Greater co-operation with the…

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U.n. Bombs Hit Greek Soldiers

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 29 September 1952 · page 6

SEOUIL Monday: Bombs dropped from United Nations planes fell among Greek troops as they stormed and captured…

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Stalin Claims War With West Unlikely

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 October 1952 · page 3

MOSCOW, Friday: Marshal Stalin said yesterday Russia would not attack the west, and the Western Powers were afraid to attack the Soviet Union. War between the Western…

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"Cold War" Chief Needed—Monty

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 October 1952 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery last night suggested N.A.T.O. nations would name someone as Supreme Commander of the "cold war."…

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"Pushing World Into War"

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 October 1952 · page 7

MOSCOW, Wednesday: Soviet Politburo member, L. O. Beria, claimed last night, that the United States was pushing the…

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Young Soldier Sentenced

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 October 1952 · page 1

A 23-year-old soldier was sentenced to 18 months' hard labour in Goulburn Quarter Sessions yesterday afternoon…

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Kenyu — Goba Creek Soldier Settlers Show Appreciation Excellent Dinner And Function To Welcome visitors

Boorowa News · Friday 10 October 1952 · page 1

Last Friday evening the soldier setting of the Kenyu-Goba Creek area, at an exceptionally fine dinner and brief function held in the C.W.A. Hall at Boorwa, welcomed the visiting State Ministers for Lands and Transport…

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Binalong War Memorial Tree

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 October 1952 · page 1

Crs. C. A. Grogan and J. M. Glover will interview local residents regarding the completion of the War…

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More Rams For Ex-Soldiers

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 14 October 1952 · page 3

A third leading merino stud owner has given 100 merino flock rams for distribution to soldier settlers under the war…

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"Third World War Unlikely" Churchill

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 October 1952 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: Prime Minister Winston Churchill said last night that he thought a third world war was unlikely -because it would be accomp anied by horrors previously unknown by human beings…

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Reds Give 4400 Planes For War

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 October 1952 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: Russia has supplied more than 4,400 aircraft, including jets, to the Chinese and North Korean Communists since the outbreak of the Korean war…

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Peking Radio on War Tension

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wednesday: A Peking radio broadcast, picked up in San Francisco, charges that the 15-months-old Korean Armistice talks have been…

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World War Ii Memorial Fund

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 2

A deputation representing the World War II. Memorial Committee, the president, Aid. W. T. Walker, and secretary, Mr. F. S…

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Senior Officials Of Lands Dept. Good Friends To Soldier Settlers Hon. W. Sheahan At Local Function Warning To Political Aspirant

Boorowa News · Friday 17 October 1952 · page 1

"Soldier settlers have had good friends in the senior officials of the Lands Department. The work of the Lands Department has been more effective in advancing the interests of this State than has been that of any other…

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More Money Wanted For Soldier Settlement

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 22 October 1952 · page 1

In Federal Parliament last week the member for Hume, Mr. Fuller, M.H.R., asked., the treasurer, Sir…

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Sheep Stealing Soldier Settler Released on Bond Paratrooper Who Didn’t Have “The Guts” to Come Clean

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 1

William James Kennedy, Kenyu Road, Boorowa, was charged at Yass Court of Petty Sessions before Mr. Wm. Finlay, S.M., with on or about October 1, stealing 91 sheep valued at £240, the property of Sidney Thorn…

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Kenyu Soldier Settler Placed On Three Years' Bond Sentence Of Six Months Suspended "Rather An Amateurish Attempt Of Larceny"—S.M

Boorowa News · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 4

William James Kennedy, a soldier settler, of Kenyu Road, Boorowa, was charged at Yass Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday of last week before Mr. Wm…

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Russian Move on War in Korea

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 30 October 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wednesday: Establishment of a special commission, including all those concerned in the Korean conflict, to bring about a "peaceful…

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