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

The wars & local soldiers, 1946

27 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 2

Sad Details For Mother Death of Soldier Son

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 10

BY the kindness of a fellow prisoner of deceased, Mrs. R. E. Myers, late of Grose Vale, has learned further particulars…

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Grose. Wold Fete Success for "Welcome Home" Funds Enjoyable Function

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 February 1946 · page 3

NOTWITHSTANDING adverse weather conditions, the Fete in aid of funds for a "welcome home'" to the lads who left Grose…

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Another Group of Returned Men Welcomed Happy Riverstone Evening Citizens Express Admiration

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 March 1946 · page 4

THE admiration which the citizens of Riverstone and district feel for, their returned Service personnel was again exemplified at the Masonic Hall on the evening of 1st…

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"Welcome Home" To South Windsor Personnel 70 Guests Entertained

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 10

SOUTH Windsor again demonstrated its enterprise and organising talents at the "welcome home" function tendered by the…

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Second Big Success Kurrajong "Welcome Home" Happy Evening Spent

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 April 1946 · page 1

ANOTHER happy gathering assembled at the Kurrajong Theatre on Friday evening to tender a "welcome home" to…

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Banquet for Servicemen. Grose Wold Excels Itself "Welcome Home" Evening

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 April 1946 · page 7

A SPLENDID welcome to the returned Servicemen of Grose Wold took place at "Navua" on Saturday evening, when the guests were tendered a banquet…

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Welcome Home At Maraylya

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 1

Maraylya folk turned out in force to welcome home returned service personnel at an official function, held at the Maraylya Hall on April 6…

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Blaxland's Ridge Welcome Home

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 1

It was undoubtedly a truism that on Saturday afternoon the 13th inst., all roads led to—well, not to Rome— but Blaxland's Ridge for the eagerly…

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Richmond "Welcome Home" Discussed Concert Decided

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 May 1946 · page 9

THE Richmond committee has decided that the next "welcome home" function for returned personnel will take the form of a…

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Anzac Service Richmond Observance Impressive Ceremony

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 5

ATTENDED by a large gathering of the public, the Anzac Commemoration Service at Richmond on Sunday afternoon…

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Unity Goal for Servicemen To Win The Peace "Welcome Home" Addresses

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 May 1946 · page 2

THE lead to lie taken by ex-Services personnel, and their need for unity, in ensuring the kind of peace for which they had…

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Second "Welcome Home" Richmond Honours Returned Servicemen Happy Evening at Theatre

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 May 1946 · page 7

EXCELLENT arrangements by the committee resulted in a very happy evening at the Regent Theatre, Richmond, on May 13, when the second group of returned…

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War Savings Groups Active District Campaign

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 May 1946 · page 2

Mr. A. D. Beveridge, official representative of the Commonwealth Loan and Savings Campaigns, is in Windsor and district forming…

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Hospital Board Adamant Rejects Rescission Motion Will Not Restore Name to Honour Roll

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 June 1946 · page 9

BY far the longest discussion at the May meeting of the hospital board was on a motion—which was defeated—aiming to…

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Fatal Motor Accident Returned Soldier Killed Sad Circumstances

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 June 1946 · page 1

PARTICULARLY sad circumstances were attached to the death, as the result of a motor accident on 1st Jane, of Mr…

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Windsor's "Welcome Home" Second Group of Returned Personnel Entertained Speakers Offer Thanks and Good Wishes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 June 1946 · page 1

THE size and representative nature of the gathering of citizens who braved tine wintry weather to attend Windsor's "Welcome Home" to the second group of returned Services personnel in McQuade Park on the evening of June 7 spoke more…

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"Can't Live on Fat of War" Mr. Spooner Takes Labor To Task Address at Windsor

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 4

"WE can't live indefinitely on the fat of the war," said Mr. E. S. Spooner at Windsor on June 7, in charging the Chifley…

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Sackville Says "Welcome Home" Returned Servicemen Entertained Speakers Pay Tribute

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 July 1946 · page 9

A VERY happy evening took place at Sackville on June 8, when a cordial "welcome home" was extended to three…

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Wife of Liberal Party Candidate Interesting War Career

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 September 1946 · page 10

Mrs. Alyson Wheeler, wife of Roy Wheeler, Liberal Party Candidate for Robertson has had an interesting war career—She visited England in…

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Traiming For Another War

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 11

During the war, Australian soldiers, sailors, and airmen had their training made quicker and more realistic by special films. "Seeing Is…

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