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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1974

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For Entertainments New Anzac series beams on

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 January 1974 · page 12

CTC-TV remembers the beginning of the traditions of Australia’s righting forces with the…

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New books WOMAN P.O.W. at War in S.E. ASIA

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 January 1974 · page 19

Among the new books added to the Queanbeyan City Library this week are the following fiction: KEITH, Agnes Newton, “Beloved…

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War Peace Begins

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 13 February 1974 · page 16

Three years in preparation and one year in the making, the adaption of Tolstoy’s great novel War…

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Sounds of War

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 20 February 1974 · page 16

Pierre Bezuhov, played by Anthony Hopkins, inherits his father’s title and estates in the second…

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War and Peace rolls on

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 6 March 1974 · page 18

Count Rostov receives a letter from his son Nikolai, saying that he has been wounded and…

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The War Lord

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 13 March 1974 · page 16

CTC presents Charlton Heston in “The War Lord” on Saturday, March 16…

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For Entertainments War Lord

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 March 1974 · page 14

CTC presents Charlton Heston in “The War Lord” on Saturday, March16…

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Soldiering in Hawaii

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 March 1974 · page 4

DOING it hard in the modern Australian Army today includes faking part in international exercises with Allied forces…

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Lest we forget Anzac Button Day

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 April 1974 · page 17

The United Returned Soldiers’ Fund will hold its annual Anzac Appeal this Friday, April 19. The honorary secretary of the Fund, Mr…

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Anzac Day call Country men wanted to march in Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 22 April 1974 · page 14

The RSL today called on country members to make this week’s Anzac Day march in Sydney the biggest ever. The State president, Mr. Colin…

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Anzac Anthem

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 April 1974 · page 10

The years they come, the years they fly. And yet their glory will not die Who fell on far Gallipoli; Unto them memory let us weave…

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Anzac March

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 April 1974 · page 14

The traditional Anzac Day March through Sydney by returned servicemen and…

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Large Crowds Expected at Observances Anzac Day services

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 April 1974 · page 10

Officials expect a large attendance of returned servicemen and women at Anzac Day Commemoration Services in Queanbeyan tomorrow. The RSL is organising…

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Last survivor of Boer War squadron recalls long hours in saddle Young Churchill

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 April 1974 · page 13

“The Boer was a hit-run soldier, as soon as [?] spotted us he would been fire then take off…

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Best attendance for years at Anzac service

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 April 1974 · page 1

A crowd of about 1500 people — the biggest.for some years — turned out in brilliant sunshine for the 59th Anzac Day commemoration service in Queanbeyan yesterday…

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Dawn Service Anzac legend a call for unity

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 29 April 1974 · page 17

“If the legend of Anzac is seen for what it is and just what it is supposed to represent, ft can unite today’s Australians and furnish a lasting beacon in challenging times that lie before us”…

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Q’beyan woman wounded

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 1 May 1974 · page 20

A woman attacked with a knife during a robbery at Fyshwick last night was Mrs. Sue…

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Soldiers

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 29 May 1974 · page 5

The Rostovs. together with wounded soldiers, take shelter at Troitska, some miles outside the…

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For Entertainments War and Peace a Conclusion

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 June 1974 · page 16

Tolstoy’s War and Peace: An Epilogue concludes on ABC-TV on Thursday, June 27, at 8.00 pm. It is 1820 and Count Rostov has died,…

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War Funds Football

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 12 August 1974 · page 13

More than 30 years ago the then teenager Dick Mclnnes skippered one of the finest junior Rugby League teams that Queanbeyan had been able to muster. And that’s Dick holding the ball in the front…

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