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Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1973

10 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers

Former Prisoner of War Returns to Singapore

Western Magazine · Monday 19 March 1973 · page 2

The Changi Prison door slams shut... but this time it doesn't matter…

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War on the Locust Grasshoppers threaten Coonamble district

Western Magazine · Monday 9 April 1973 · page 7

Locusts threaten to reach plague proportions in the Coonamble district and aerial…

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Anzac Day Arrangements

The Western Herald · Friday 20 April 1973 · page 7

Arrangements have been realised by the Bourke Sub-Branch of the R.S.L. for Anzac Day, 1973. In be commemorated in Bourke on Wednesday, April 25th. With their usual untiring…

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The Future of Anzac Day

The Western Herald · Friday 20 April 1973 · page 6

For mow than half a century, Anzac Day has been a feature of the Australian way of life. In past years, there was hardly an Australian family who did not have someone — father, uncle, grandad — who was…

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Nyngan Anzac Day Race Meeting

The Western Herald · Friday 20 April 1973 · page 6

A five event programme, with prize money of $1500, will be held at Nyngan on Wednesday, 25th April…

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Anzac Day March Anzac Day Remembrance Services

The Western Herald · Friday 4 May 1973 · page 1

Remembrance Services were held in Bourke on Anzac Day (last week, 25th April) along similar lines to…

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Anzac Day at Louth

The Western Herald · Friday 4 May 1973 · page 2

Once again Louth and district fathered in force to pay their respect to the fallen in the last wars in…

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This was no ordinary fire War hero and murderer

Western Magazine · Monday 11 June 1973 · page 2

The destruction by fire of a home is always a tragedy. But if the burning house is in fact a funeral pyre, started as an attempt to conceal two brutal murders, it becomes national news…

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This was no ordinary fire War hero-murderer

Western Magazine · Monday 18 June 1973 · page 3

The man did not seem to fit into the role of the monster who could criminally assault a thirteen- year -old child, and years later deliberately murder her and her young husband…

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Down the Darling for Local Soldiers

The Western Herald · Friday 23 November 1973 · page 7

Soldiers from Holsworthy Army Camp near Sydney will take to the Darling River for a ten-day boat…

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