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The wars & local soldiers, 1953

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commonwealth may sell Soldier's Point

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 October 1953 · page 3

CANBERRA.—Early action would be taken to dispose of the Commonwealth naval base lands embracing the…

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Soldiers Point May Change Hands

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1953 · page 6

In Canberra, Mr. Allen Fairhall, M.P. for Paterson, said that following the Government's decision to dispose…

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Clarence Town War Memorial

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 October 1953 · page 2

The 1939-45 war memorial in Grey- street, Clarence Town, was unveiled at an impressive ceremony by Mr…

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Atomic Gun Soldiers Arrived

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 October 1953 · page 1

BREMERHAVEN: Soldiers who will man the first atomic gun of the United States forces in Europe have…

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No War In Forseeable Future

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 October 1953 · page 1

LONDON: Field - Marshal Lord Montgomery said yesterday he did not think there would be a war In the…

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More Soldiers For British Guiana

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 October 1953 · page 1

FORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad): British aircraft Implaced anchored here yesterday with 647 soldiers aboard, bound for georgetown, British Guiana. And in Georgetown, deposed British Guiana Prime…

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New gift of rams for soldier settlers

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 October 1953 · page 4

Details of a new gift of merino rams for distribution to men on war service farms has been…

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Clarencetown War Memorial

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 22 October 1953 · page 5

The 1939-45 war memorial in Clarence Town was recently unveiled The memorial takes the form of…

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Communism based on single standard of war

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 October 1953 · page 2

"Communism has made the morality of war its permanent single standard by which it always lives…

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Position Critical But War Unlikely Truce Observer’s View On Middle East

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 October 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK: A Danish, general who is chief of the United Nations Truce Observation Commission in Palestine, does not believe that the isroeli-Arab border crisis will break out into a major conflict…

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Soldier Had Russian Music For Week

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 October 1953 · page 4

BERLIN: Dickle Campbell, 20-years-old Glasgow fustlley, has been given 84 days’ detention by a British…

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Soldiers Point Extension

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1953 · page 1

The awaited plan of the route of the main road into Soldiers Point, which is not a dedicated road, needed to…

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Soldier's Point School

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1953 · page 6

In State Parliament, Mr. R. L. Fitzgerald, MLA, asked the Minister for Education whether the 48 pupils enrolled at…

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Preferred To Welcome Home Another Man

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 October 1953 · page 6

The first night James Henry Ryan, of [?]ous[?]eld-street, Wallsend, spent at home after his discharge from the army…

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Little Interest In Soldiers From Korea

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 October 1953 · page 2

At least 10 young men from the Maitland district joined Australian units, which served in the Korean war but a check in Maitland district to-day revealed the name of only one,…

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Communist Promises To War Prisoners Leader-In America After Revolution

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 October 1953 · page 4

NEW YORK: An American prisoner of war, Corporal Edward Dickenson, 23, who last week changed hit mind about not being repatriated, told reporters yesterday that he had remained behind…

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War Memorial Convalescent Home for Ex-servicemen at Bolton Point, Lake Macquarie

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 October 1953 · page 2

The War Memorial Convalescent Home for Ex-Servicemen at Bolton point, Lake Macquarie, has been…

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Soldier Settlement

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 27 October 1953 · page 2

Over 400,000 acres of Western Division grazing land will be thrown open in 13 soldier settlement blocks early in…

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Class War Is Fading Away, Says Menzies

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 October 1953 · page 3

SINGLETON: The theme of an address by the Prime Minister (Mr. R. Q. Menzles) in the Strand Theatre , yesterday…

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Hoppers Take Wing or Relentless War Planes Standing By

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 October 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY : Grasshopper border to-day took wing in the Coonamble Tooraweenah district and moved relentlessly toward wheat and pasture lands. Farmers in many N.S.W. districts likely to be…

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