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The wars & local soldiers, 1952

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New Exhibits For War Memorial

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 November 1952 · page 6

CANBERRA, Mon.—The Australian War Memorial is to be enlarged to include relics from the…

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"Soldier They Couldn't Kill"

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 November 1952 · page 2

SAN FRANCISCO, Tues.—In the Second World War the United States War…

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Fijian Soldier-migrant Declared "Prohibited"

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thurs.—A Fijian charged as a prohibited immigrant was described by Special Court Magistrate Soiling today as "the type of man we want."…

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Honour Roll Unveiled at Thirroul

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 10 November 1952 · page 5

A plaque bearing the names of 260 service personnel from Thirroul who served in the last war was unveiled at the Thirroul Soldiers' Hall yesterday…

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Bruce Sees Less Danger of War

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 10 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.—The threat of war was diminishing, but the seriousness of the world economic situation was increasing and "could not be exaggerated", the…

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Kiama's War Dead Were Remembered Yesterday

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 12 November 1952 · page 1

In a simple ceremony at Kiama War Memorial yesterday (Tuesday) a handful of citizens paid tribute to the town's war dead…

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Russian Adamant on Korean War Prisoner Issue

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 November 1952 · page 2

NEW YORK, Tues.—Creation of an 11 -nation commission to "settle the Korean question" was proposed by Soviet Union in the Political Committee…

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Railmen to Lose War Loadings

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 November 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.—The Full Bench of the State Industrial Commission today waived all provisions for wartime loadings from the building trades awards of…

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U.K. Urges 'Freedom' For War Prisoners

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 November 1952 · page 10

NEW YORK, Wed.—Britain has rejected the Soviet proposal for a new Korean Commission, offering instead four major principles for breaking the armistice deadlock. The principles, tabled in…

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Sport in Brief War Negative

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 14 November 1952 · page 12

SYDNEY, Thurs.—The Swab taken from unplaced favourite Dual Colours at Canterbury last Saturday,…

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Woman Dead, Another Wounded, On Galston Farm

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 17 November 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.—Detectives today charged a 38-year-old farmer with murdering a woman and attempting to murder another, woman in a lonely…

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Soldier Patients at Wollongong

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 November 1952 · page 9

Members of the R.S.L. Women's Auxiliary, under the leadership of their President (Mrs. F. Knaggs)…

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Anzac Stops Red Battery

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 November 1952 · page 13

LONDON, Wed.—Australian destroyer H.M.A.S. Anzac, which was commissioned in January 1951,…

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'Half Soviet's Output Preparing For War'

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Mon.—The Soviet Union and its satellites had 491 divisions of troops stationed in Europe and Asia, the State Department announced last night. The department said…

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Japs To Hand Over Soldiers

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 2

TOKYO Mon.—The Japanese Government agreed today to turn over two Commonwealth…

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Editorial Vishinsky Says the War Must Go on

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 1

VISHINSKY'S flat, uncompromising rejection of the Indian Korea truce plan seems to leave only one conclusion. Thai is thai Russia does not want an end to the fighting, if it can possibly…

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War Veterans' Home

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 1 December 1952 · page 8

ABOVE: A view of the 25 bed hospital at the War Veterans Home, Narrabeen. The building is designed and operative to the most modern concepts in remedial treatment and hospitalization in the Southern Hemisphere…

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Operations Changed Soldier Into "Beautiful Woman"

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 December 1952 · page 2

NEW YORK, Mon.—A United States Army ex-serviceman had been transformed by six operations at a Copenhagen hospital into a beautiful…

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War Veterans, Hospital

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 8 December 1952 · page 4

The 25-bed hospital at the War Veterans' Home, Narrabeen. Designed and operative to the most modern concepts in remedial treatment and hospitalisation in the Southern Hemisphere…

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Union 'War' Brewing Among Taxi Drivers

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 December 1952 · page 1

Some taximen believe a "cold war" between rival taxi drivers' organisations is approaching a head in Wollongong. The bodies are the Taxi Owners and Drivers' Association and the…

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