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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1970

9 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Anzac Day service to commence earlier

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 April 1970 · page 1

Queanbeyan’s Anzac Day Commemoration Service next Saturday —the 55th anniversary of Anzac—will be held at 10.30am, half-an-hour earlier than has been the custom. This was announced this…

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Anzac Day holiday closure

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 April 1970 · page 1

Queanbeyan retail stores, butcher shops etc.; will be closed tomorrow for the Anzac…

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RAAF provides Anzac catafalque party

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 April 1970 · page 1

Members of the RAAF stationed at Fairborn will mount the catafalque party at ,the World War 1 memorial outside the Municipal Council Chambers For Queanbeyan’s Anzac Day commemoration service tomorrow…

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Schools Prominent on Anzac Day

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 May 1970 · page 2

Representatives of the schools played a prominent part in last Saturday’s Anzac Day march…

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21 Div Anzac Day ‘visits’ Fines follow two raids on unregistered clubs

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 May 1970 · page 7

Raids by Police of 21 Special Division Sydney on two Queanbeyan unregistered clubs on Anzac Day resulted in the appearance in Queanbeyan Court of petty Sessions of two men charged with being Keepers of common gaming houses…

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How the ‘Age’ Has Soldiered on for 110 Years

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1970 · page 15

This issue of “The Queanbeyan Age,” produced with space-age electronic equipment, hardy bears comparison wit the first issue published 110 years ago. Yet both are the same newspaper. While that of…

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Wounded in shooting accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1970 · page 1

A Captain’s Flat youth escaped with a flesh wound in a shooting accident about three miles…

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Our Town Dot Is Now “The Universal Soldier”

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 November 1970 · page 2

George Lazenby’s mother is hopeful, but not sure, that 007 can make it home for Christmas. My misses is not sure if she is hopeful. It’s taken her 18 mouths to get over George’s last visit. The…

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Dinner to Great War veterans

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 November 1970 · page 2

Nineteen veterans of the 1914-18 war were entertained to dinner on Wednesday night at the…

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