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The wars & local soldiers, 1946

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Memorial to Honor War Nurses

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 2

The gallant and heroic deeds of Australian war nurses who gave their lives on active service are to be commemorated by a…

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Sir William Webb Nominee For War Crimes Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The chief Justice of Queensland, and the Australian War Crimes commissioner (Sir William Webb) has…

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Reparations From Germany War Plants to Be Divided

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

PARIS, Monday: The Allied Reparations Agency has received from the Allied Control Council in Berlin a list of German industrial…

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Churchills Arrive in U.S. Pearl Harbor as War Turning Point

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tuesday: Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill good humoredly posed for photos and gave an impromptu Press…

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U.s.a: Promises Whole Hearted Co-operation Greater help for post-war victims

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.): Dramatically pledging the United States to wholehearted co-operation with the United Nations, the U.S. Secretary of State (Mr. Byrnes) opened the debate on the Preparatory Commission report at the United…

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Private Sales of Farm Land to Returned Men Should Be Encouraged If Properly Controlled

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 4

A suggestion that in any sold settlement scheme men with adequate qualifications who desired to deal direct with…

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Named As War Criminals

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 2

VIENNA, Wednesday: A statement issued to-day by the Au, trian Premier (Dr. Renner) demands the trial at Nuremberg of…

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Deliberate Sinking of British Ship Nazi Act Before Outbreak of War

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 2

NUREMBERG, Wednesday (A.A.P.): The whole story surrounding the sinking of the Athenia has established that the German Navy, under Grand Admiral Raeder, embarked on a deliberate…

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Death Verdicts on Jap War Criminals Rumors That None Were Carried Out

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.: The leader or the Parliamentary liberal Party (Mr. Menzies) to-day ashed if the Government…

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"Snare and a Delusion" Soldiers' Bill Criticised

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: According to the State president of the R.S.S.A.I.L.A. (Mr. J. R. Lewis), a Commonwealth…

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Soldiers Denied Former Army Car Mr Fadden's Protest

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 7

"Reports that the Commonwealth Disposals Commission sold 900 Army vehaclies at Lae at an average price of 30/- each to a…

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Winchendon Vales New Year Dance and Welcome Home. Presentations to Returned Soldiers

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

It was a significant and pleasing fact that at the first New Year dance since the end of hostilities the Winchendon…

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Funeral of British Sailor Attended by Returned Men

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 3

The profound sorrow that passed over the town on Monday, when a British Sailor after being rescued from the Leeton Baths, died in the…

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Coolamon Patriotic Trotting Club Next Meeting, 20th February in Aid of Soldiers’ Welcome Home Banquet

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 2

There was a large attendance at the meeting of the Coolamon Patriotic Trotting Club, held on the lawn in front of the School…

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The Late Sapper L. J. Hamblin Killed in Action Letter From His C.o

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 3

Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Hamblin have received the following letter, written by the Captain of his company, paying tribute…

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Memorial to Honour War Nurses

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

The gallant and heroic deeds of Australian War Nurses who gave their lives on active service are to be commemorated by a Memorial to…

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Pacific War Criminal No. 1

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 2

TOKYO, Thursday: "Both Australia and New Zealand have named Hirohito as Pacific War Criminal No. 1 on the list…

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Proposed Coolamon War Memorial Committee Setting”

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 2

A meeting [?] War Memorial Committee [?] held [?] Thursday night of [?] J. C Dyce Doing on the [?]…

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Australia and the Dutch Alleged Undeclared War

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 1

BATAVIA, Friday: "Australia is fighting an undeclared war with us," a Dutch officer told Reuter. Official Dutch quarters tend to be…

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Production and Marketing Post-War Plans to Be Discussed

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 2

CANBERRA, Thursday: Vital plans for postwar production and marketing will be examined at a meeting of the Australian…

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