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The wars & local soldiers, 1951

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American soldier’s I last wish fulfilled

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 October 1951 · page 3

BRISBANE, Fri.: Mrs Vivian Finkelsen cried softly this morning as she followed the coffin of her…

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Albury Rotor ions told of root causes of war

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 7

Hunger, ignorance and social injustices were the root causes of war, Albury secretary of the United Nations (Rev. C.P…

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Bandits kill 10 British soldiers

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 October 1951 · page 15

SINGAPORE, Tues.: Ten British soldiers, including an officer, were billed yesterday in a terrorist ambush 40 miles from…

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War Pension Increases

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 10

The Minister for Repatriation, Senator W. J. Cooper said war pension increases provided in the Repatriation Bill now before…

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War Is Over for Them

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 3

Two fur-hatted Chinese chew-over, the fact that the war for them has ended while Australians prepare to take them to the rear. Their capture occurred during an Australian assault part of the fierce October offensive spearheaded by…

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Only way to avoid world war

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 11

OTTAWA, Wed.: The support of the United Nations, the Commonwealth and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was…

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Two N.S.W. soldiers in casualty list

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 7

CANBERRA. Wed.: Two NSW members of the Australian forces in Korea and Japan were listed in a casualty list issued today…

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Govt. war mad—M.P

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 October 1951 · page 10

CANBERRA, Thurs.: Mr Curtin, (Lab., NSW) in the House of Representatives today said fear was the only thing the…

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Obituary Killed in Action Pte. Dennis Austin O'brien

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 October 1951 · page 3

Military Headquarters have advised the relatives of the late Private Dennis Austin O'Brien that his death occurred…

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Boer War Veteran Dies

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 October 1951 · page 2

Mr. John Tremayne White, aged 81 years, died last Friday at his daughter’s residence, Mathoura, following an illness…

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Young Returned Soldier Acquitted Of Serious Charges

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 October 1951 · page 1

Robin Aird Greig was last week found not guilty by a jury when he defended charges of assault with intent to cause…

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“Economic civil war”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 October 1951 · page 5

“This time it is economic civil war on Queensland dairy farmers,” Mr L T. Serjeant, acting Federal President of the APPU,…

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1000 War Invalids Protest

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 October 1951 · page 3

ROME, Tues.: About 1000 Italian war invalids waved crutches and shook their fists in front of the Ministry of…

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5000 soldiers to camp at Kapooka

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 October 1951 · page 16

WAGGA, Tues.: The Australian army has big plans for Kapooka camp, six miles south of Wagga. This was revealed today by Mr…

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Boer War Veteran Dies Mr. John Tremaine White

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 1

Mr John Tremaine White, aged 81 years, died last Friday at Mathoura at the home of his daughter. He had been ill for several months…

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Aid to Soldier Amputees

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 6

CANBERRA, Wed.: Government had supplied free cars to about 90 ex-servicemen—double amputees, Senator Cooper,…

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Wrong Thinking Made War Possible

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 2

Speaking at a civic reception in Griffith this week, the Archbishop of York, Rt. Hon. Cyril. Garbett, said that those The Archbishop said: "We must not regard war as inevitable. I don't think that you do in this country. But in Europe and in…

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“Apathy” towards the Korean war

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE. Thurs.: Before the annual RSL Federal conference closed this afternoon, it issued a statement attacking…

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War Leader Seeks for Peace

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 November 1951 · page 2

The strange idea that a man who has been responsible for the conduct of a Great War is not the one to entrust afterwards with the making or the keeping of the peace still perkists in British countries, as Mr Churchill found to his dismay when the…

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Mother feared outbreak of war: killed family

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 November 1951 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Fri.: Mrs Soh Kut Peng, 30, who had a phobia about World War III pushed her four children…

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