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The wars & local soldiers, 1946

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Women Soldiers to Wear Men’s Underpants ADELAIDE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 5

Included in the regulation issue made 10 members of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Services personnel who ore going to Japan with…

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Loans Available to Soldier- Farmers SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 1

As from today, returned service men farmers who wish to re-establish themselves on the land can make direct application to the Rural Bank…

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Limbless Soldier Released on Bond MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 5

A limbless soldier from the 1914-18 war, who had been in the postal service for 25 years, pleaded guilty today in General Sessions on nine charges of…

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Returned Soldiers Threaten Government BRlSBANE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 2

The City Hall was packed and hundreds listened outside to amplifiers, when a soldiers’ protest meeting was held tonight. General Gordon Bennett the chief speaker,…

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Many Soldiers Are “Nerve- Cases” LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 5

The British Legion estimates that 33 per cent of this war ex-servicemen can be classified as nerve cases—men who cannot settle down to their homes…

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“Unemployment Among Ex-soldiers Growing” SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 2

Unemployment among ex-servicemen had reached a stage when it was for “very plain speaking,” said Lieut-General Gordon Bennett before…

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Redlands War Effort League

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 1

Redlands War Effort League. At the monthly meeting of the above the following further [?]nations to the wheat appeal were…

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War Gratuities Five Year Men to Receive £225

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday: The Minister for the Army, Mr. Forde, has announced that war gratuities due up to June 30, 1945, are estimated to…

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Sea Travel Restriction Off When Soldiers’ Dependants Home CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 5

All travel restrictions “necessitated by existing circumstance” would be removed immediately the last wife, child or fiance of Australia from overseas and the last…

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Two Soldiers Fined Sequel to Visit to an Albury Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 4

Lionel George Cook, soldier, in camp at Bandiana, pleaded guilty in Albury Court yesterday to having used indecent language in Kiewa st…

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Soldier Settlement

The Pastoral Times · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 1

The Director of Reconstruction in a letter to Central Murray Regional Committee intimated that the Lands Department could not make available…

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War of Nerves “Colossal Bluff” LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 2

Germany’s “war of nerves,” which resulted in the Austrian anschluss, the Munich debacle, was just[?] bluff, which would have collapsed…

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“Farming Goes to War in Great Britain” Exhibition in Mate’s Lounge Next Week

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 4

Loaned by the United Kingdom Information Office, a pictorial exhibition, titled “Farming Goes to War in Great Britain,” will be opened in [?]…

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Welcome Home Large Crowd at St. John's Hall

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 1

In spite of the intense heat on Thursday evening of last week, there was a very large crowd at the Parish Hall at the civic reception to Returned Service Personnel, sponsored by the Mayor and Alderman of the Corowa Municipal Council in…

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War Spending Down CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 3

Of estimated 'war expenditure of £359,931,000 budgeted for in 1945-46, a total of £274,121,000 had been spent during the seven months to…

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Unemployed Soldiers Over 35,000 Still Out of Work

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday: Over 35,000 discharged ex-service personnel were without jobs on January 12, it was stated to-day. Of these 32,289 were…

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Soldier Settlement Delay Hume Shire Councillors Concerned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 6

When in Sydney shortly Cr G. A. Bell will call on the Minister for Lands and express Hume Shire Council’s dissatisfaction on the…

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Soldier Settlement Commission Appointments in Accordance With Act CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 3

Discharged Servicemen’s Board to-day informed Cabinet that it had considered the appointments of Messrs C. K. Locke and E. E. Bond to the…

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Japan Open to U.S. Wives of Soldiers TOKIO

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 2

General MacArthur, in a statement today, declared that he hoped that [?]cupied areas in Japan would be open to servicemen’s wives by May 1 and…

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How Britain Fought War on Food Front

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 4

How England went to war [?] the food front is [?] exhibition of pictures [?] Mate’s Ltd., in their…

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