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The wars & local soldiers, 1948

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Is Anzac Service Only a Yearly Habit

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 3

“There is an even greater need the Anzac spirit In the days of peace than In the days of war,” declared the Rev. James Goudie,…

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Remberance of Anzac Day Will Remain Glorious Fact of History

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 2

Anzac Day is for us a day of remembrance and a' day of re-dedication it is a remembrance of things which neither fire, flood nor the march of time can efface it is the remembrance of glorious fact of history…

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Must Contemplate War’s Possibility

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK. April 26. — The Senate Armed Services Committee censored Defence Secretary Forrestal’s evidence considerably…

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War Hero Dies in Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 1

War hero, Air Commodore James Yule Guilfoyle, died in Royal Melbourne Hosptial on Saturday from severe burns he…

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Anzac Day Had Its Incidents Australian Test Players Among Assembly in England

Singleton Argus · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 2

Some members of the Australian and New Zealand deleRation had a narrow escape from death when a Turkish…

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U.s. to Restore War Plants

Singleton Argus · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 4

President Truman has asked Congress to authorise the restoration of 200 Government war plants…

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Prospect of War Stronger now Than Three Months ago

Singleton Argus · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 3

Prospect of war is stronger now than it was three months ago. This is the view of the United States Chief of Staff., General Omar Bradley, who in secret evidence before the…

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American General Not Sure War Is Not Right Ahead

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, April 20—The prospect, of war is stronger now than it was three months ago. This Is the view of the United…

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War not Close, Says Nehru Present Time Most Dangerous in History

Singleton Argus · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 1

The Prime Minister of India (Pandit Nehru) believes a new war is not imminent. Tee Prime Minister of South…

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Drug Habit at Public Danger Point in Germany War Chiefly Responsible(From Guy Betony, Reuter’s Correspondent)

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 3

HAMBURG (By Airmail)—The drug habit has increased so much in Germany since 1939 that it is now regarded by the German authorities as a public danger. Four-fifths of ell addicts are stated to have been…

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Anzac Day "Only Hope For Peace."

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 3

Mr. Campbell Marshall, who delivered the occasional address at the Anzae service tit the Memorial Hull at Cessnock on Sunday, expressed the…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle TUESDAY, 27th APRIL, 1948. Anzac Day at Muswellbrook Service at Memorial

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 3

At the United Commemoration Service, held at the Soldiers' War Memorial on Anzac Day, the largest crowd ever to attend this…

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Do You Want Your War Gratuity? ("Reveille.")

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 2

Believe it or not, many ex-Servicemen and women eligible to apply for war grauities, don't realise that it's imperative for them to lodge an…

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Kurri Soldiers' Social

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 1

Ladles of the former Kurri Send-Off and Welcome-Home-Committee. were entertained at a combined social arranged by Kurri Sub-branch of…

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Soldiers Killed in Storm

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 1

KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 (AAP-Reuter).—Two British Soldiers were killed and an officer injured on Friday when a tree,…

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Anzac Day

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 1

In drizzling rain 30,000 war veterans began the Anazc Day march in Sydney on Sunday afternoon. The march took two hours from 2 p.m., when the leader, Lieut.-General H. Gordon Bennett, moved…

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Bullahdelah Anzac Day

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 1

Requiem Mass was celebrated at St. Brigid's Catholic Church, Bullahdelah, at 10 a.m. on. Anzac Day by the Rev. Father H. J. Whibberley, of…

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Anzac Civic Service Christ Church, Dungog

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 3

A representative gathering of citizens attended the civic service at Christ Church on Sunday morning to pay tribute to the memory of our…

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Paterson War Memorial

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 2

The president (Cr. L. G. Clements) handed £5 to the meeting of Lower Hunter Shire Council to-day to be spent on the…

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Service at War Cemetery

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 2

On Anzac Morning, a Remembrance Service was conducted by the Rev. E. K. Leslie at the Dungog War Cemetery. Mr. W. E. Searl, President…

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