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The wars & local soldiers, 1946

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Soldiers Who Disgrace Uniform Loss of Citizenship as Penalty Urged SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 1

Lt. Col. Mant, chief legal adviser of NSW Lines of Communication. at a board of inquiry into military law today said that…

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Ex-soldier Became a Eire Bug SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 1

William Charles Gourley, aged 34 married with 10 children, admitted in Quarter Sessions today to starting 22 fires ill Braidwood in a year,…

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“Day of the Soldier Almost Gone” WASHINGTON

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 1

Lieut.-General Levin Campbell (retiring Chief of Ordnance) stated at a Press conference today that the army had developed a…

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Claims Few Ex-Soldiers Workless MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 4

The deputy Director-General of Manpower (Mr Cameron) stated today that of 61,000 discharged servicemen, who had passed through Royal Park…

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700 Ex-soldiers for Murray Valley Settlement MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 5

The Minister for Lands (Mr Galvin) said today it was hoped to settle 700 ex-servicemen on the Murray Valley irrigation area of 60,000 acres between…

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Ex-Soldiers To Get First Call On Building Materials SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 2

Priority in home building materials would be given to returned soldiers, evicted persons and persons with large families living in rooms…

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Welcome Home School of Arts Crowded to Honour Servicemen

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 5

The third of a series of socials arranged by the Patriotic Committee to extend a welcome home to discharged service personnel,…

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Jap War Criminals Executions Confirmed

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday: An Army spokesman announced last night, that Japanese war criminals who have been sentenced to death by…

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Correspondence Henty War Memorial (To the Editor)

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 1

Sir,—The citizens of this district have had posted to them this week an appeal from the Henty Memorial Funds Committee, asking them to…

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Returned Soldiers' League Annual Meeting on

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 6

The annual general meeting of the Henty sub-branch of the R.S.L. will be held in the School of Arts to-morrow (Saturday) night, when the…

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No Censorship on Soldiers’ Mail Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 February 1946 · page 4

No instructions have been issued that there be any censorship imposed on mail from Australian servicemen in the Japanese occupation force, the…

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Soldiers on Islands Getting Plenty of Beer SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 February 1946 · page 3

The hospital ship [?] arrived at Sydney today [?] 56 nurses and 57 AAMWS [?] the 219th AGH. There were [?] and…

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Many Ex-soldiers Out of Work SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 February 1946 · page 3

A vigorous housing policy would assist materially in solving the returned soldiers’ re-employment problems, according to Colonel K…

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Walla Lyps Welcome Home

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 4

A welcome home was tendered six ex-service personnel by the L.Y.P.S. The guests were: Messrs Roy Wegener, Norm Smith, Les…

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Lodge’s Welcome Home Social

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 2

Tonight, 25 ex-service members of the MUIOOF Lodge will be welcomed home at a social by fellow Albury lodgemen. Another social will be…

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Millions on Non-Existent War Mr. Fadden’s Amazing Disclosures CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 1

Hundreds of millions of pounds already spent or earmarked by the Federal Government this financial year for war services when the…

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Japs’ “Winds” Message Meant War Flash Intercepted Just Before Pearl Harbor WASHINGTON

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 2

Captain I. F. Safford, head of Navy Communications intelligence in 1941, yesterday told the Pearl Harbor inquiry that the…

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Clipping Germany’s War Wings For Ever Four Powers’ Important Decision LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 1

The four occupying powers have announced that they have reached a general understanding on smashing Germany’ chances of ever…

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“Tough” Decision Which Helped to Materially Shorten the War Americans’ Sink and Bomb At Sight Campaign Against Japs WASHINGTON

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 2

Vice-Admiral Charles Lockwood (war-time commander of the United States submarines) stated at a Press conference today that the United States instituted unrestricted air and submarine warfare against Japan a few days after Pearl Harbor, and had used the “wolf-pack”…

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Land Hungry Soldiers Will Be Double-crossed

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 2

Reported intention of the board charged with the responsibility of assessing the qualifications of ex-Servicemen applicants for land of visiting Albury shortly is a gesture which may deceive those who emerge successful from the relevant quiz…

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