Experimental Operations on American Prisoners At Least One Soldier Reported To Have Gone Mad (Australian Associated Press)
Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 August 1953 · page 1
MUNSAN: Experimental “Russian” operations performed on American prisoners in Communist hospitals drove at lease one soldier mad, returning prisoners reported to-day. They told them that if they did not take the operation they could be given…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Memorial Fund Lying Idle
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 August 1953 · page 4
The Memorial Hall Committee, which has been eager to obtain the £1400 in the War Memorial Fund, for improvements to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ultimatum to Reds All American War Prisoners Must Be Returned
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 August 1953 · page 1
WASHINGTON: Secretary of Stater John Foster Dulles, said last night that the Communists in Korea must return all American war prisoners — even those convicted of so-called crimes. Mr. Dulles, just back from his mission to Korea, told reporters of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Settler Benefits
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 August 1953 · page 4
SYDNEY: The Minister for Lands (Mr. F. H. Hawkins) said that soldier settler benefits would soon be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Australian Language (This story was told about the Diggers in the 1914-18 First World War)
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 12 August 1953 · page 6
Yet another story of the high spirits of Australians at the front—this time not from the battlefield, but from a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldier Settlement to be extended
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 August 1953 · page 3
The Minister for Lands, Mr. F. H. Hawkins, said that soldier settler benefits would soon be extended to Servicemen from Korea and Malaya,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wounded In Korea
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 August 1953 · page 2
SINGLETON: A letter has been received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Walton, of Clydesdale, Singleton, from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Countries of Korean War to Work Out Plan Move To Confine Discussion
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 August 1953 · page 1
NEW YORK: Representatives of the 16 countries which fought for the United Nations in Korea met lost night to work ,out o plan for the forthcoming Korean political conference. The meeting was called by Henry Cabot Lodge, chief U.S. delegates to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hundred rams fur soldier settlers
Singleton Argus · Monday 24 August 1953 · page 3
A well-Known merino breeder has anonymously donated 100 rams for men on war service land…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Legacy and/or War Orphans' Day FRIDAY, 4th SEPTEMBER
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 25 August 1953 · page 1
Legacy and/or War Orphans' Day will be commemorated throughout Australia on Friday, 4th…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This Is Legacy Week War Orphans' Appeal On
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 August 1953 · page 1
This is Legacy week on the Coalfields. A week which culminates Friday with the Annual Legacy War…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day’s Leader The Eternal Struggle Soldier Disliked His Bath
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 August 1953 · page 1
LONDON: Army Private General Percival Lawrence charged with having disobeyed an officer’s order to have a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Few Soldiers Are Settled
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 August 1953 · page 1
SYDNEY [?] of ex[?] want soldier settlement have been placed the [?] (Sir John…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Korean Orphan in War Wreckage
Singleton Argus · Friday 28 August 1953 · page 5
Homeless and alone in the world, this Korean war orphan sits amid wreckage of war near the battlelines in Korea. The youngster lost both parents during a battle a few days before. Korean children have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Martindale Land Bought for Soldier Settlement
Singleton Argus · Friday 28 August 1953 · page 3
State Cabinet has approved the acquisition of 12 estates for War Service Land Settlement at prices…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Decision on War Criminals
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 September 1953 · page 1
BONN: The three Western Allied High, Commissioners yesterday ordered the establishment of three Allied-German…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wingham Man Mentioned in War History
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 2 September 1953 · page 1
Five references to the exploits of Lieut.-Col. Jack Abbott, of Wingham, are made in the first volume of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Korean War Orphan
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 1
Homeless and alone in the world, this Korean war orphan sits amid wreckage of war near the battlelines in Korea. The youngster lost both parents during a battle a few days before. Korean children have been victims of death and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Last Day For Prisoner Of War Exchange
Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 September 1953 · page 6
PANMUNJOM: On Saturday, the last day of operation “Big Switch,” the Communists returned 123 United Nations prisoners. This brought the total since the exchange began on August 5, to 12,75[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →100,000 Children Left War Orphans
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 September 1953 · page 1
LONDON: One hundred thousand children have been left orphans as a result of the Korean war. There also are 300,000 war Widows and more than 30,000 cripples to be cared for. This dreadful aftermath of…
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