"Soldiering On" After 29 Bullet Wounds
SYDNEY, Wed.—An Australian soldier who survived 29 bullet wounds while serving with the 1st…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1953
156 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 8
Man Murdered, Woman Wounded in Park at Tamworth
TAMWORTH, Mon.—A man was fatally shot and a woman wounded in Prince of Wales Park, Tamworth, this afternoon. Later police charged a…
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CANBERRA, Wed.—In a casualty list issued to-day by the Minister for the Army (Mr. Francis)…
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A.J.C. TO [?] SYDNEY, Wed. —Australian Jockey Club hold a meeting at…
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The Central Zone Committee last night decided to call, tenders from, civil engineers for the designing and supervising of drainage works throughout the…
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President Truman made this confident phophecy in his farewell fireside address to the American…
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CANBERRA, Mon.—Australia bad received 720,000 migrants since the end of the war, the Minister for…
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A Japanese newspaper campaign is inflaming public opinion about the presence of foreign troops in the country. United Nations forces—mostly British…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Judge Warns Soldier on Behaviour
TOKYO, Mon. — The Judge Advocate directing the Court Martial of Australian Privates Leslie Arthur Sinclair and John Joseph Patton today warned…
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TOKYO, Tues.—Two Australian privates were sentenced to four years' imprisonment and…
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CAIRO, Tues.—Premier Naguib said yesterday the dignity of Egypt demanded that the Nile…
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SYDNEY, Tues.—A soldier had stolen another soldier's wife when both were mates in the Army…
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Red Cross had met every plane-load of wounded from Korea the chairman of the N.S.W. Division (Mr. J. F…
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WASHINGTON, Wed.âThe new Government of the United States would never start a war, but neither would it be "intimidated, subverted, or conquered," the Secretary of State (Mr. John Foster Dulles) said last night…
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There has been a steady flow of applications for War Service Homes now nearing completion in this district…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Balgownie War Memorial
It is anticipated that it will cost about £260 to remove the Balgownie war memorial from its present site, at the junction…
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WASHINGTON, Sun.—A positive strong foreign policy will diminish the risk of war and not…
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Major-General R. Bierwith, who has been serving in London for two years as Australian…
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SYDNEY. Wed. —A man. charged with maliciously wounding a woman and her two…
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Every wounded Australian soldier in Korea is regularly visited by members of the Australian Red Cross team, it has been stated by a…
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