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The wars & local soldiers, 1954

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Diggers Want No Change On Anzac Day

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 6

By an overwhelming majority only five supporting the motion, delegates at the Western Districts Council…

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Murderer's Estate To Pay Two Wounded Survivors MELBOURNE

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 20 May 1954 · page 1

A jury yesterday ordered the estate of a murderer to pay £9300 to a father and daughter, survivors of a…

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Heroine Stays In Fallen Fortress To tend Wounded HANOI

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 1

The sole woman member of the garrison of Dien Bien Phu in Indo-China, Nurse Genevieve de Galard-Terraube,…

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H. Bomb And War Outlook

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 1

Most Australians believe that invention of the hydrogen bomb has made another world war less likely, the Gallup Poll finds…

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Soldier Settlement

The Western Herald · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 11

Applications under the was service land settlement scheme for fifteen grazing blocks in the western…

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Gift Rams to Soldier Settlers

The Western Herald · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 9

The Minister for Lands, Mr. Hawkins, announced this week that eighty merino rams have been donated for men on war…

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As Military Talks Proceed In Washington Behind Thick Security Veil Red China Blocks Move to End War in Indo-china Washington

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 1

In unusual secrecy military representatives of the United States, Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand met at the Defence Department to discuss the defence of South-East Asia against the…

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Another 23 War Serve Farms

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 2

State Cabinet has approved expenditure of over £100,000 for additional land for war service land for war service settlement…

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Old Soldier Passes

Gilgandra Weekly · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 8

A very well known resident of Narromine, Mr. Arthur Richard Walter Jones, passed away at…

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Anzac Day Amenities C’bran R.S.L.

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 6

There was considerable discussion at the monthly meeting of the Coonabarabran sub-branch of the R[?]SAILA relative…

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"Intervene or We Will Sign Any Armistice We Caw Get" Is French Untimatum to U.S. on Indo-china War New York

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 1

Unless America intervenes in the Inco-China war France has warned the United States that she will take any armistice she can get the "New York Times" states…

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Eglabra Rams for War Service Blocks

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 2

Settlers on war service land settlement farms who want to share in a gift of 80 merino rams from "Egelabra" Stud,…

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Friendly Way Only One Good War

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 4

Seek Good and not evil that ye may live—Amos 5:14. When Robert Louis Stevenson was a little boy, with that…

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£200,000 for soldier settlement

The Wellington Times · Monday 14 June 1954 · page 1

State Cabinet last week approved expenditure of over £200,000 for additional land for war service land…

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Enlistments in Permanent Defence Forces

The Western Herald · Friday 18 June 1954 · page 9

"Enlistments in the three permanent Defence Forces since the beginning of the present Recruiting…

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War Veteran Passes

Gilgandra Weekly · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 1

The death occurred in Gilgandra District Hospital on Monday of Thomas Frederick Burns (73),…

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War-tested Brake Fluid for Public

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 1

The brake fluid that was [?] exclusively by the Allied [?] in the South-West Pacific [?] during world war II is[?]…

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Foolish, Coonamble War Memorial Cup

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 8 July 1954 · page 18

Foolish, which raced un-successfully at the Coonamble Diggers’ Races came back into its own on…

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Peak Hill Digger Was Original Anzac

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 3

The funeral of Mr. James Edward Langham took place at Peak Hill on Sunday. He was 70…

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Egg War Brings Down Prices SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 1

The price of eggs is expected to fall considerably in the near future. It has already fallen 1/- a d zen…

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