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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1952

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Crowds Attend and Service Anzac March

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 2

The Tivoli Theatre West Wyalong was again fifilled when the Anzae commemoration service was held on Friday. Veterans of the Boer War…

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Hundreds Attend Anzac Day Re-union Dinner

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 2

More than four hundred former members of the fighting services attended the Anzac Day reunion luncheon at West Wyalong…

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Impressive Anzac Day Celebrations Forbes Still Remembers

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 1

LIGHT rain fell as spectators lined the streets to watch 500 personnel combine for one of the largest Anzac marches to be held in Forbes for many years. The route to the Cenotaph was lined with spectators and the…

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Condobolin Pays Tribute to Anzac Biggest March For Years

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 1

Anzac Day was celebrated in Condobolin, as in every other centre throughout Australia, whatever the size, with a new spirit of earnestness and a new resolve to live up to the example set by those who died so splendidly in the two world…

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Stirring Call to New Generation Challenge Of Anzac Day

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 1

"I feel that as a nation we are deteriorating. We are not following the example of service which was given us by two generations of Anzacs. I am afraid that Anzac Day is losing its meaning."…

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Tallimba News Anzac Day

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 4

Friday was a cloudy lowering day[?]e day. when the [?]as S[?]less, dripping and [?]y with [?], yet…

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Old Soldiers are Still Hale & Hearty

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 1

There was a mighty cheer at the West Wyalong Auzac Day [?]uncheon when three veteran soldiers and a khaki clad youth…

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Eugowra Remembers Anzac; Memorial Gates Opened

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 6

IN spite of the weather, the attendance at the Eugowra Anzac Day ceremony was bigger than usual, and a large number of beautiful wreaths were placed on the monument…

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QUANDIALLA £100 Profit From C. of E. Ball Rain Spoils Anzac Commemoration QUANDIALLA--Wed

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 10

Despite verv overcast weather and muddy roads the Quandialla show pavilion was thronged dancers from all parts of the…

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'Best For Years" Anzac Day Luncheon

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 5 May 1952 · page 2

The 19[?] Anzac Day luncheon was the most enjoyable of a long series of successes. President of the West…

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Soldier's League will Share in Rodeo Profits

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 5 May 1952 · page 2

Although West Wyalong branch of the Returned Servicemen's League will not organise a Rodeo and Gymkhana on June 9 (Queen's birthday) it…

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Observance of Anzac Day at Weethalle

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 8 May 1952 · page 4

Weethalle and district seems to have a definite day in the year that is always remembered, and that is Anzac Day. While many have memories…

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Parke's Man's Costly Anzac Day Spree At Forbes

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1952 · page 1

Geo. Turner, a well-dressed Parkes resident, pleaded guilty at Forbes Court last Tuesday to the following charges:…

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5,000 Enlist for Permanent Forces

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 15 May 1952 · page 2

"During the past four months over 5000 men have been onlisted in the permanet forces," Mr. P. J. Hynard, the acting…

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Korean War Veterans Honoured

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 May 1952 · page 1

Fifty veterans of the United Nations war against aggression in Korea were honoured by the UN General Assembly in Paris (Sun., Dec. 2, 1951). At the Palais de Chaillot, the veterans (seated on stage) and UN delegates heard Corporal John Roy,…

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Parkes Man's Costly Anzac Day Soree at Forbes

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 19 May 1952 · page 5

Geo. Turner, a well dressed Parkes resident pleaded guilty at Forbes court to the following charges:…

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"Just Price" For N.S.W. Land for Soldier Settlement

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 6

The Premier, Mr. J. J. Cahill, in the absence from the city last week of Mr. Hawkins, Minister for Lands, had something…

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No Need for Guards in Australia, Says Anzac

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 9 June 1952 · page 2

There should be no need for guards or fences to protect Cenotaphs erected to the memory of men and women who had made the supreme sarcfiice in the cause of liberty and justice…

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Pasture Improvement Doubles Soldier Settlers' Production

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 9 June 1952 · page 3

Pasture improvement programmes on soldier settlement farms are doubling and even trbeling carrying capacity and production from the land, the…

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Reconsideration Of Soldiers' Qualification Certfs

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 4

Ex-Servicemen, seeking soldier settlement farms, whose applications for qualification certificates were refused, could now, in…

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