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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1945

49 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 3

Wounded in Action

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 2

An Army casualty list reports that Sgt A. Parkes, In[?] Clarendon, was wounded in action in Australia and the…

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Generosity Christmas Party for Wounded

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 5

SPLENDID generosity was shown by a prominent Cattai resident on December 13, in entertaining a large group of…

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Street Brawl Two Soldiers Arrested

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 2

AN all-in brawl between a number of soldiers, two women and a couple of children in George-street, Windsor, near Thompson's Square, early…

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British Farmers' War Effort

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 6

FIGURES recently released by the British Ministry of Agriculture snow that the total area of grain crops in…

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Post- War Farming Professor Expresses Views Reconstruction Needed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 7 February 1945 · page 1

SOME measure of agriculture reconstruction was an urgent necessity, no matter what happened to world trade after the…

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Agricultural Service Department's Post-war Programme

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 3

I HAVE read with deep interest, and heartily approve, the proposals [?]utlined by my colleague, the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Graham, for…

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Disgrace To Uniform Says Magistrate Soldiers Before Court Cafe Disturbance

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 4

TELLING two soldiers they were a disgrace to their uniform. Mr. R. Soiling, S.M., at the Richmond Police Court on…

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Windsor's First Air Award Of War

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 28 February 1945 · page 5

Awarded the D.F.C., Flight-Lieut D. F. Ward, of Windsor, has gained the first decoration won in this war by an airman…

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U.s. Women Soldiers in N. Guinea

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 28 February 1945 · page 4

Covered with the dust of New Guinea, a detachment of the U.S. Women's Army Corps arrives at advance headquarters. They are part of the latest W.A.C. contingent to reach the south west Pacific, bringing…

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Water Scheme Priorities Decisions of Government Post-War. List Announced

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 4

At my urgent request a review was recently made by the appropriate Government instrumentality of the present state of each of the rivers of the…

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House Building After War Richmond Alderman's Proposal

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1945 · page 2

A SUGGESTION that aldermen should consider the erection of a number of houses for sale in the post-war period…

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Unlicensed Pistol Soldier Sent to Gaol

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 March 1945 · page 3

THE explosion of a pistol in a 'bus at Clarendon led to the appearance of a young soldier at the Richmond Police Court on…

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Wayside Pulpit (Contributed by the Hawkesbury District Ministers' Fraternal.) How to Stop War

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 6

Let the cost of running this war for one day (from the Allies' side alone) be devoted to Evangelistic Missionary…

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War on Vermin Naphthalene Substitute Available Soon

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 5

An effective substitute for naphthalene will soon be available in ample quantities to meet the anticipated Australian…

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Anzac Commemoration On

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 2

ANZAC DAY will be celebrated at Richmond on Sunday with a combined commemoration service in the Regent…

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To Review Post-war Water Plans

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 2

Ald G. E. Maunder, district representative on the Water Board, has arranged for a meeting of representatives of…

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Soldier Committed For Trial On Manslaughter Charge

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 2

FINDING at an Inquest at Winsor on Monday that Lawrence Nugent, 52, had died from injuries, including a fractured skull, feloniously inflicted by Louis James Frick, a soldier, the Hawkesbury District Coroner, Mr H. S. Johnston,…

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Manslaughter Charge Coroner Commits Soldier Fatal Fight at Cafe

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 4

AFTER holding an inquiry at the Windsor Court House on Monday into the circumstances of the death of Lawrence Nugent (52) in the District Hospital on April 1 following a fracas at a Windsor cafe on the evening of March 29, the Havvkesbury…

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Post-war Water Plans

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 25 April 1945 · page 2

Richmond Council on Thursday appointed the Mayor, Ald [?] Smith and the Deputy [?] Aid A. E. Dalton, to…

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Anzac Day Service in Windsor

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 2 May 1945 · page 3

AN IMPRESSIVE dawn service at the memorial gates In McQuade Park, which attracted a larger attendance than in…

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