Soldiers Used Army Phone, Spent £78
LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—Two lonely soldiers who phoned their girl friends at the Army's expense totted up a telephone bill of…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1951
310 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 16
Wounded Home By Air
A party of 12 sick and wounded servicemen from Korea and Japan arrived e [?]cot this week by Qantas Skymaster. Here Private T. Mitchell, who was wounded in Korea, is being carried from the plane…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Bride Back With Migrants
DARWIN, Friday.—A young Australian war bride, who married a Dutch officer-fighter pilot, returned to Australia tonight with her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Memorial to Late War Leader (To the Editor)
Sir,—A public meeting, convened by the Mayor of Grafton, formed a committee to Establish a memorial to the late Lt.-Col. Charles H…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Truman Confident Of Preventing Third World War
PHILADELPHIA, Sunday (AAP). —There was good reason to hope for success in preventing another world war, President Truman said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Korea Evacuation Of Wounded Highly Organised
SYDNEY, Monday.—Padre Scott, of Sydney, who was with 77 Squadron R.A.A.F., said today that air evacuation of wounded from Korea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →61 Lismore Applications to Enlist
Sixty-one applications for enlistment in the permanent army and Citizen Military Force have been received by Lismore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jap War Crimes Trials Dragging To Bleated Close
LOSNEGROS.—On this tropic palm-tree studded island, a small band of Australians is finishing the task of trying suspect Japanese war criminals. The rest of the world closed its trials long ago…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brunswick Heads Soldiers Club Rooms
The proposal made recently for the establishment of a returned soldiers' club at Brunswick Heads was taken a step further last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldier Farms Extension to Secure Certificates
MULLUMBIMBY, Monday.—At a meeting of Mullumbimby R.S.L. subbranch, Mr. E. Neath told members that an extension of time had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jungle Folk Count In Malaya War
IPOH.—Both the Communist guerrillas and the British security forces in Malaya are busy wooing the scores of thousands of wild aborigines in the deep jungle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Letters To The Editor Increased War Gratuity Needed
Sir,—It would be appropriate for some space to be given to the question of an increase in the war gratuity payment because it is…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AWAC Enlistment Conditions
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—En[?]istment conditions for other ranks in the Australian Women's Army Corps were announced by the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mail Killed, 2 Wounded by Crazed Gunman
NEW YORK, Thursday (AAP).—A crazed gunman killed one man and wounded two others before he was mortally wounded by police in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Suspension of War Criminals' Execution
BONN, Thursday (AAP).—The United States High Commissioner (Mr. John McCloy) has rejected the appeal of the West German…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letters To The Editor Increased War Gratuity Needed
Sir,—Permit me through the pages of your paper to endorse "N. Number's" remarks re war gratuity. An increase of 50 per cent, is certainly…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →WOODBURN R.S.L. Plea for Support Of World War II Ex-Servicemen
In his annual report the President of the Woodburn Sub-Branch of the R.S.S. & A.I.L.A. (Mr. A. R. Bale) stressed the need for increased…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wounded by Pearifle Discharge
KYOGLE, Monday.—A 25 year old man, Ivor Smith, narrowly escaped death late this afternoon when a pearifle he was carrying…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Criminals Taken to Japan
TOKIO, Monday (AAP-Reuter).—Nineteen Japanese, including convicted and acquitted war criminals, arrived at Yokkaichi from Manus…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →First Australian To Face Jap Civil Trial Since War
TOKIO, Monday (AAP-Reuter).—A 25 years old Australian, Kenneth William Gibbons, was today remanded in Tokio District Court until March 5 on a charge of illegally entering Japan. Gibbons is the first Australian to…
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