Church’s War Memorial
The unveiling of the church’s war memorial will take place at the Empire Day service Jn Bulahdelah…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1954
354 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 18
French renew talks at Dienbienphu on fate of wounded SAIGON
A special French mission has flown to Dien Bien Phu to renew talks with the Communist Vietminh rebels on the evacuation of wounded from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →2228 soldiers now settled on land
Up to March 31 farms had been provided , for 2223 soldier settlers in N.S.W. under the war service land…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Theft From War Widow Despicable
Theft of a £10/14/6 cheque from a war widow, the more[?] of two young children, was described by Mr. F. R. Wood,…
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Rev. J. R. Parish, minister in charge of the Myall River Methodist circuit reports that all arrangements have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Indo-china War: Big Rebel Army Moving Into New Assault Positions No Progress Towards Peace At Geneva
HANOI: A French high command announcement in Hanoi officially confirms that a Vietminh Communist army of 30,000 men is marching of the Red River delta, last French bastion in northern…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nurse Will Not Leave Wounded Troops
PARIS: Nurse Genevieve de Galord the “angel of Dien Bien Phu” has turned down a Vietminh offer of repatriation and will remain in the subjugated north Indo-China fortress tending the wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Biggest polo season since war
The present polo season appeared likely to develop into the biggest since the war the Secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aberdeen News Boer War Veterans Entertained
On Monday night, the 54th anniversary of the "Relief of Mafeking" saw the R.S.L. Club resound to the banging…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Defence Force Enlistments
Enlistments in the permanent defence forces since the beginning of the recruiting campaign, in October, 1950,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese War Criminals Paroled
TOKYO: The Government of the Netherlands has agreed to parole 15 Japanese war criminals now serving sentences in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Montgomery Says : Mistake Could Start Third World War Fear Of Atomic Weapons Powerful Deterrent
PARIS: Both sides would probably use atomic weapons in the event of a full-scale war, Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery said yesterday. I Field-Marshal Montgomery is deputy supreme…
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MACKSVILLE: The funeral of Mr. George Frederick Carney, 76, of Scot’s Head, the only Boer War veteran in the…
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TOKYO: An enormous statue of a man, commissioned by the municipality of Nagasaki as a memorial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dulles Announces : Terms Under Which America Might Enter Indochina War
WASHINGTON: American Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, believes that the United States will support sending a United Nations’ peace observation mission to Indo-China—if an appeal is made for one. Mr. Dulles, in a review of the whole Indo-China situation and Geneva efforts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. gives conditions for intervention in Indo-Chinese war WASHINGTON
Secretary of State, Mr. Dulles, yesterday laid down four conditions which must be met before the United States could intervene with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Opposing Generals Likely to Confer at Geneva Talks Consideration Of Eden Plan To End War
GENEVA: Representatives of the two opposing high commands in Indo-Chino are likely to meet in Geneva next week to discuss details of a cease fire and the regrouping of their forces as part of on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Passing of Mr. M. E. Wright Soldier and Man
When Mr. Maxwell Edward Wright passed to his rest at "Bickham," Blandford, on Monday last, a prominent figure in pastoralism of the State was lost. And more, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldier Murdered By Egyptians
ISMAILAI: A crowd of Egyptians yesterday murdered a British soldier on the outskirts of Ismallal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CHILDREN’S A.B.C. in Language War Norwegian Parents “Correct” Books
OSLO: Norwegian children’s A.B.C. and first reading books have come into the front line of this country’s never-ending “language war.” The latest books, issued to children in their first…
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