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The wars & local soldiers, 1946

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Urangeline Third Welcome Home

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 1

The Urangeline Peace Hall was the scene of a packed house on March 29. The hall, gaily decorated with flags, bunting and flowers, added…

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Anzac Day

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 2

Anzac Day this year—the first since the declaration of peace—will have a special significance for the people of the Lockhart district,…

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District News Grong Grong Welcome Home Committee Annual Meeting

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Soldiers Farewell and Welcome Home Committee was held in the Grong Grong Hall on 26th March…

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Dirnaseer's Welcome Home Gymkhana and Ball Very Pleasant Success

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 5

Lovely weather combined with the efforts of the Dirnaseer district residents to make the occasion of welcoming home the returned Servicemen…

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Whitton News Anzac Day

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 3

This is the Diggers day and Whitton R.S.L. has decided to hold their march and ceremony in the afternoon. This will afford the Whitton…

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Griffith Man Critically Wounded

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 2

Thomas Rule, aged 22 years of Carrathool Street, Griffith, is in the Wagga Base Hospital In a critcal condition following an accident while…

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Athletics Sports Meeting on Anzac Day

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 4

The De La Salic Old Boys will be holding a monster sports meeting on Fisher Park on Anzac Day afternoon, commencing at 2 p.m…

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Anzac Day Observance Combined Service of Remembrance

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 2

UNDER the auspices of the Leeton sub-branch of the R.S.S. and A.I.L. of A., a combined Service of Remembrance will be…

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Shooting Accident Near Wagga Griffith Man Critically Wounded

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 1

Thomas Rule, aged 22 years, of Carrathool-Street, Griffith, is in the Wagga Base Hospital in a critical condition following…

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Nurses Memorial and Ambulance Sports Showground on Anzac Afternoon

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 2

A highly entertaining programme of trotting, cycling, footrunning and novelty horse events will be run off on the Showground on Anzac…

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War Casualties Presumed Dead

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 2

Pte. LINDSAY THOMAS WILLIAMS (NX34719) who became missing on January 22, 1942, is for official purposes,…

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Ministers on State Land Policy No Single Farms For Soldiers

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: The only reason that the Homing Commission had entered the building field was because of the…

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Restrictions Off Anzac Day Observances

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday: Wartime restrictions under National Security Regulations covering the observance of Anzac Day will not…

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War Memorial Committee At Griffith

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 4

At a meeting of the Griffith War Memorial Committee, preliminary arrangements towards a Venetian Carnival to be held late in…

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Bitter Chinese Civil War Battle For Chanchung

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 1

CHUNGKING, Tuesday: Government and Communist forces are battling for possession of Changchun, capital of Manchuria. The…

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Welcome to Returned Men

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 2

At the Wonderland Theatre on the night of Anzac Day, April 25. the citizens of Wagga will be afforded an opportunity of extending…

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Miners' Anzac Day

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 2

Anzac Day would be observed as a public holiday in mines in the northern districts of the State, but not in the south and…

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Restrictions Off Anzac Day Observances

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 3

Wartime restrictions, under National Security Regulations covering the observance of Anzac Day will not apply to this years…

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Anzac Day Tumut Commemoration Ceremony

Adelong and Tumut Express · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 2

Tumut will witness its largest Anzac Day march next Thursday, April 25, when more than 200 local returned…

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Anzac Day Observance Combined Service of Remembrance

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 2

UNDER the auspices of the Leeton sub-branch of the R.S.S. and A.I.L. of A., a combined Service of Remembrance will be…

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