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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1966

19 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Boer Memorial beautification for Anzac Day

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 February 1966 · page 1

Beautification work planed adjacent to the Boer War Memorial in Lowe Street will be completed well…

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Anzac Day greyhounds for charily

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 7 April 1966 · page 6

Queanbeyan Coursing Club will conduct its usual charity meeting again on Anzac Day, Monday, April 25…

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Wear a tin hat on Anzac Day

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 April 1966 · page 6

Half `the gross proceeds from the “Tin Hat Day ” apperal in Queanbeyan on Friday April 22, will be…

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CAPTAiN’S Flat News Anzac Day Services

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 April 1966 · page 6

Captain’s Flat Anzac Day remembrance services will commence with the traditional dawn service at the…

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Anzac Song

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 April 1966 · page 3

Men of our kind, remember well! ’Tis for your freedom still we lie!…

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Marist Bros. Anzac Day ceremony

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 April 1966 · page 6

Pupils of the Marist Brothers. Queanbeyan, assembled in the school grounds this morning for an…

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Big crowds likely for 51st Anzac commemoration

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 April 1966 · page 1

Queanbeyan RSL officials expect a large contingent of returned servicemen to take part in the Anzac Day commemoration march on Monday, the 51st anniversary of Anzac…

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Veterans at Anzac dinner

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 April 1966 · page 1

Over 180 men attended the annual Anzac dinner in the Queanbeyan RSL Memorial Hall yesterday, following the…

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Men of Anzac Lead the Parade

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 April 1966 · page 1

THE SPIRIT OF ANZAC has never been more evident than it was at the 51st commemoration landing at Gallipoli, held in. Queanbeyan In the picture above, Mr. George Gardner leads the…

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Big Crowds Throng Streets for Anzac

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 April 1966 · page 1

Over 1500 people turned out yesterday to see one of the most impressive Anzac Day marches and commemoration ceremonies yet held in Queanbeyan The parade was also one of…

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Anzac Service at St. Gregory’s

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 1

St. GREGORY’S School, together with other schools in Queanbeyan, held a service last Friday to…

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First Soldiers’ Home

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 May 1966 · page 3

THE laying of the foundation stone of the first soldier’s home in Queanbeyan during the latter part of…

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Bowling Club’s rapid development Surge ahead began soon after Second World War

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 June 1966 · page 5

Queanbeyan Bowling Club, which had been struggling to progress during the first eleven or twelve years of its existence, began to make headway rapidly in the years immediately after the second world war…

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Home from Vietnam war

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 June 1966 · page 1

Private John Kalma, of Adam Street, is back in Queanbeyan after serving with the 1st. Battalion, BAR,…

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Anzac Essays

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 July 1966 · page 3

The principal awards in the annual Anzac Day essay competition sponsored by Queanbeyan Sub-branch of…

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Anzac Essay Prize Winners Happy

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 August 1966 · page 1

PRIZEWINNERS in the 1966 Anzac Essay competition, conducted by the Queanbeyan R.S.L. Sub-branch, were a happy group after being presented with their prizes last Saturday morning. The children came from the…

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Colonel Joye Off to War

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 August 1966 · page 1

AUSTRALIAN entertainers Col Joye and Little Patti try on Army headwear at Sydney Airport before…

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Legacy Romance Now Dad’s Back From Viet War

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 August 1966 · page 1

In the thick of a Viet Cong ambush Private Ron Elbourne had one comforting thought. If in those few terrible minutes by the moonlit…

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Choice is peace or war, says Munro

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 November 1966 · page 9

Australians would vote tomorrow either to firmly keep the peace by containing aggression, or to sit back and wait until they were involved in a great and terrible war, Mr…

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