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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1954

354 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 18

Soldier Given Bond

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 3

A soldier who appeared at Cessnock Court, this morning on a charge of driving while under the influence of liquor…

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Land For Soldier Settlement

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 6

The Premier (Mr. J. Cahill) said that N.S.W. Cabinet had, approved the purchase of 20 properties…

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War Rubble To Build Stadium

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 6

HANOVER : A stadium to seat 100,000 people, built with the rubble of buildings destroyed in World War II, is to…

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War Service Land Settlement

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 4

STOREY A bill to make discharged members of the Kores and Malaya forces eligible for the State’s war…

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Land Worth £1-Million For Soldier Settlement

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 11

Expenditure totalling nearly £l-million for additional land for war service land settlement was approved by…

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New Soldier Settler Bill

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 4

Korea and Malaya ex-Servicemen will be eligible for war service land settlement scheme farms under a Bill…

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To-day’s leader The Fish In Our Diet America’s Concern In Indo-Chinese War Communist Homing For Gateway To South-east Asia

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON: President Eisenhower yesterday praised the defenders of the Indo-Chinese garrison of Bien Die Phu. He expressed his admiration of the commander and soldiers of the fortress…

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War Service Land Settlement

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 3

Korea and Malaya ex-Servicemen will be eligible for war service land settlement scheme farms under a Bill approved by…

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Inquest Into Soldiers’ Deaths

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 1

NEWCASTLE: An inquest into the deaths of two soldiers frowned daring army amphibious manoeuvres on March 8…

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Publicity, War Against Margarine

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 2

LONDON: Dairy interest, in Australia New Zealand and Demark win pay £125,600 ster[?] to a compaction to fight…

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Turks At Anzac Day Celebration

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 3

WELLINGTON: On April 25, Turkish soldiers will be welcomed at Anzac ceremonies in New Zealand by the old…

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Tin Hats For Anzac Day

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 4

As a prelude to Anzac Day 500,000 miniature Tin Hats are being distributed to sub-branches of the R.S.L. for…

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Conditions At War Criminals’ Prison

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 3

LONDON: British, Prime Churchill) yesterday defended an attempt by the Western Powers for…

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Anzac Day March To Be Held In Afternoon

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 3

Maitland sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League will hold its Anzac Day march and memorial service in the afternoon of this year as April 25 falls on a Sunday…

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New British War Film

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 6

“They Who Dare,” a May flower production recently previewed at the Carlton Theatre, London, tells the…

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New Plane Is War Deterrent

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 1

LONDON: North Atlantic Alliance commander, American’s General Allred Gruenther, said in London last night that…

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Will Not Start H-bomb War

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 3

WASHINGTON: “We are not going to start a war with the hydrogen bomb." President Etsenhower said last…

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Boy Soldiers Used By Rebels

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 1

PARIS: About 20,000 fresh Communist troops poured from the north last night to strengthen the force be[?]…

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Soldiers' Day Appeal Tin Hat Day

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 2

"As a prelude to Anzac Day 500,000 miniature Tin Hats are being distributed to sub-branches of the R.S.L. for…

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51 Years for War History

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 8

WELLINGTON (N.Z.): The Department of Internal Affairs has finished the official New Zealand war history of…

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