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The wars & local soldiers, 1953

395 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 20

Rams for Soldier Settlers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 November 1953 · page 4

Applications by men on war service land settlement forms for "Willandra" gift Merino rams close on Friday,…

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Servicemen’s War on ’Hoppers

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 November 1953 · page 3

SIDNEY: Troops and airmen hope to spray 500 acres of grasshopper infested land to-day…

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Remembrance Service At War Memorial

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 2

The remembrance service to be held at the Maitland War Memorial to-morrow morning will be conducted by the…

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Upper Hunter War Against Hoppers Light Planes May Be Used

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 1

An officer of the Department of Agriculture is expected to arrive in Singleton soon to discuss the possibility of using light private planes to spray flying grasshoppers…

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War Time Experiences Told to Rotarians

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 11 November 1953 · page 4

Rotarians were entertained recently by guest speaker Roger Para who related some of his war time experiences in…

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War on Milk Producer Ferguson and Sedgwick Defend

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 14 November 1953 · page 1

War has been declared on the milk producer by certain city interests which are making capital out of a cry that…

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War Veterans Entertained

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 November 1953 · page 2

At an Armistice re-union dinner in Singleton men of the 1930-45 war entertained Boer War veterand and…

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Convention on Peace and War Views Of Delegates

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 November 1953 · page 3

At a meeting in Weston Pariah Hall on Thursday, November 15, local delegates to the recent…

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Saga of World War Ii. Killer Ship Told in Digest

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 November 1953 · page 6

Early in World War II, a ship was sunk while carrying supplies to Australian troops stationed in…

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Soldier’s Predicament

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 November 1953 · page 1

BERLIN: A British soldier, who arrived in Berlin Monday after seven years'-in Soviet captivity,.-will be-kept…

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Fishing Facilities At Soldiers’ Point

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 19 November 1953 · page 8

Fishermen going to Soldiers’ Point will in the near future, hove at their disposal ant of the most modern bootsheds in the north. It is now under construction, situated on the western aide of the point…

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“Threat Of New War Disrupted Economics”

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK: Threat of a new world war had led to a disruption of world economics, Soviet Russia’s Andrei Vishinsky told the United Nations yesterday. He was charging that United States capitalists…

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Increases In War pensions

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 November 1953 · page 2

CANBERRA: The Minister for Social Service (Mr. A. Townley) announced incrassated in war pensions for…

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Army enlists dog regiment

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 November 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE.—The Australian Army is recruiting a "dog' regiment" for special guard and patrol work…

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Soldier On Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 24 November 1953 · page 1

LONDON: Police have charged a soldier with mur[?] following the discovery of his wife’s body in a tin…

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Diggers’ Enterprise Maitland’s First War Memorial Building

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 December 1953 · page 2

The Mainland Returned Servicemen’s League night decided to buy and convert the Union Sank Chambers in High-street into Maitland’s first war memorial building…

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Killed Two, Wounded Seven

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 December 1953 · page 1

Rons .Two men are dead and seven others result of 10 mantes, of meno griping nose grapping archer[?] a hlter to…

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Killed First German Soldier In War

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 December 1953 · page 1

PARIS: The man who killed the first German soldiers in the first World War has died at Chainpagnole, Eastern Frances…

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Indo-China May Start World War

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 December 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK: Admire An thu[?]r Radford, chairman of ai[?] U.S Joint Chiets of Staff. Said today that if Communist China…

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Soldiers' Point School Accommodation

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 3 December 1953 · page 2

Mr. R. L. Fitzgerald, M.L.A., has received the following regarding the provision of extra…

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