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

The wars & local soldiers, 1954

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Wealthy Moroccan Fatally Wounded

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 August 1954 · page 5

CASABLANCA, Monday: A wealthy Moroccan known for pro-French sympathies was fatally wounded by gunmen in the…

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Big Gangland War Feared

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 August 1954 · page 1

CHICAGO, Monday: Authorities fearol yesterday that the killing of two ex-Capone mobsters in "three…

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Local Legacy Lift To War Widows

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 August 1954 · page 2

Goulburn Legacy is at. present providing help for 77 war widows and 94 children, the president,. Mr. C.S.S . Kennedy, reported to Saturday night's annual dinner, More than £1100 was spent in…

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Water-Diviner Finds Missing Returned Soldier

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 August 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A 43-years-old years-old returned so[?]lier, who had been missing in thick bush country near…

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Readiness for "Quick All-out War"

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 25 August 1954 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: A new plan for keeping the military production facilities of the United States in…

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Sacked Over War Book

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 26 August 1954 · page 8

Lord Russell, 59, the British Army's Assistant Judge Advocate-General, has been forced to resign…

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Global War and Local Hot-spots "Double-Barrel" Planning

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Monday: United States military planning must be "double-barrelled" to deal with a possible global war and local political hot-spots, Admiral Arthur Radford has told the American people…

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Plan to Assist Soldier Farmers

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 September 1954 · page 3

A Liberal N.S.W. Government would meet, the difference between the price paid for resumed soldier…

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Soviet Warning to West on New War

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 September 1954 · page 3

LONDON, Friday: Soviet Russia has served notice on the West that the re-militarisation of Western Germany will "probably" provoke a new war…

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Street in Memory of Former Soldier

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 2

Mrs. C. M. Pursehouse, of Concord, widow of the late Captain Lloyd Pursehouse, of Goulburn, has been advised by the…

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"Be Ready To Fight Major War Now"

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 September 1954 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Thursday: Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland urged the United States to-day to. "draw a line" against Communist aggression in Asia and be ready to fight a major war "now" if the Communists…

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War Service Land Settlement Block

Boorowa News · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 3

Applications under the War Service Land Settlement Scheme for a 2,017 acre sheep breeding and wool growing block near…

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World War II Memorial To Be Dedicated Sunday October 10 Selected

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 September 1954 · page 1

Crookwell's War Memorial plaque bearing the names of district citizens who fell in the Second World War (1939-1945) will be dedicated next Sunday week, October 10, by Col. A. T. Paul, M.C., D.C.M…

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Soldier Settlement Grant

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 October 1954 · page 3

The Commonwealth Government has offered to advance £1 for every £2 spent by the N.S.W. and Victorian Governments on…

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Hot Water Bottle "War"

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 7

The Hospitals Commission will consider a request to lift the ban on hot water bottles in hospitals, the Secretary of the…

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More Land for Soldier Settlement

Boorowa News · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 3

Nearly 36,000 acres of land for soldier settlement ballots will be taken over shortly from five country properties…

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Melb. Search For Wounded Man

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 October 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Police to-day cordoned off the Healesville, area after a criminal believed to be wounded, escaped from custody. All roads leading to Melbourne…

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Famous War Pilot Dies

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 6

NEW YORK, Tuesday: First man to shoot down a Japanese plane in the attack on Pearl Harbour has…

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Crookwell District Dedicates Perpetual Tribute To Her Fallen Comrades Large Assembly Sees World War II Plaque Unveiled

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 1

At a solemn and impressive ceremony at the new Crookwell Shire. Memorial Centre last Sunday after- noon a large gathering paid its homage to the memory of those citizens of the district who fell in the second…

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More Land for Soldiers

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 3

More land, situated near Gunning, will be made available for war service land settlement when two areas are…

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