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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

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Anzac Day Service

The Bega District News · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 2

It was 30 yean, yesterday since the Anzacs landed on Gallipoli. The anniversary was celebrated in Bega in the usual manner—processing…

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Berry Fittingly Celebrates Anzac Day

The South Coast Register · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 3

Berry paid its tribute to Anzac day yesterday at a most impressive service in the School of Arts, the building being [?] to capacity. To Mayor of Berry (Aid, R…

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The War. Latest This Morning

The Bega District News · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 2

Australians were among R.A.F. Lancaster crews who celebrated Anzac Day by bombing S.S. barracks and Hitler’s mountain refuge at…

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The War. Latest This Morning

The Bega District News · Thursday 3 May 1945 · page 2

Without mentioning that the landing force comprises Australians, the Tokyo radio asserts that the Japanese garrisson on on Tarakan “are at present fiercely…

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The War. Latest This Morning

The Bega District News · Thursday 10 May 1945 · page 2

Announcing that 26 minor fleet units had been sunk so far in the Okinawa campaign, Admiral Nimitz said that losses had not glowed up in the…

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The War in Europe Has Ended Germany Surrenders Unconditionally

The South Coast Register · Thursday 10 May 1945 · page 3

Mr. Churchill officially announced in the House of Commons on Tuesday, May 8, that the war in Europe had ended…

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Bomaderry Public School First Term War Effort

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 16 May 1945 · page 8

The first term Schools’ Service Auxiliary war effort took the form of the usual tuck shop and direct appeal, and proved the same…

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The War. Latest This Morning

The Bega District News · Thursday 17 May 1945 · page 2

The Secretary for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, reveals that R.A.F. bombers based on Britain and Italy, during the war dropped 888,000 tons of…

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War Has Changed Standards

The Bega District News · Monday 21 May 1945 · page 3

Five [?] observers of people were asked to sum lip changes in British [?] after six years of war. This is what they had to say :—…

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Engineers Make N.G. Advance Possible Mca Soldier in It

The Bega District News · Monday 21 May 1945 · page 3

The Australian advance down the New [?] coast from Dague to Karawap [?] Aitape-Wewok sector, and mile [?] to Wishing, was made…

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The War. Latest This Morning

The Bega District News · Thursday 24 May 1945 · page 2

Hitler died in a bunker under the Berlin Chancellery on May 1st from a lethal injection administered by his personal physician This has been told…

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The War. Latest This Morning

The Bega District News · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 2

After a successful operation to remove a bullet from his thigh, the British traitor, “Lord Haw Haw," otherwise Wm Joyce, lies in hospital at…

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Disposal of War Materials in Country Mr. Beale Approaches Minister

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 6 June 1945 · page 5

Mr. Jack Beale, M.L.A., is not satisfied that the people in country districts are getting their share of war materials which are disposed…

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Mica, War Winner

The Bega District News · Thursday 21 June 1945 · page 1

Mica is indispensable in the manufacture of delicate precision machinery so important in modern war. It is probably the only strategic…

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Welcome Home at Bemboka (From our Correspondent)

The Bega District News · Monday 2 July 1945 · page 2

On Monday night 25th June. Bemboka had the unique experience of welcoming home its first prisoner of war in the person of Corporal Erocst…

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Bega District War Agricultural Committee Chairman’s Report

The Bega District News · Monday 2 July 1945 · page 2

Routine matters have chiefly occupied the executive since our last meeting on 17th April. As you know, the May meeting was not held, owing to…

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Killed in Action

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 4 July 1945 · page 1

Miss Joy Wiley, a popular member the Nowra branch of the Bank of N.S.W., has received the distressing news of the death in…

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Illawarra District War Agricultural Committee Meeting at Kiama

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 4 July 1945 · page 7

A meeting of the above was held at Kiama on Monday, June 25th. Messrs. P. M. O’Keeffe and P. W. Herne atended from Nowra. Others…

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Letters to the Editor War and Child Delinquency

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 4 July 1945 · page 6

Sir, — “Sydney Morning Herald” correspondents have recently drawn attention to the increase in hooliganism in the rising generation,…

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Local Government Bodies Important in the Post-War Era

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 4 July 1945 · page 1

Country towns and districts could not progress as they should, and people would not stay in the country unless they could have…

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