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Obituaries & funerals, 1953

1,749 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 88

Stalin's Funeral to Be Held

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 3

MOSCOW, Sat. --Stalin's funeral will take place at midday on Monday (7 p.m. Monday, Sydney time), Moscow Radio announced last night…

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Stalin's Funeral to Be Held

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 3

MOSCOW, Sat. -- Stalin's funeral will take place at midday on Monday (7 p.m. Monday, Sydney time), Moscow Radio announced last night…

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Stalin's Funeral to Be Held

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 3

MOSCOW, Sat. -- Stalin's funeral will take place at midday on Monday (7 p.m. Monday, Sydney time), Moscow Radio announced last night…

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Stalin's Funeral to Be Held

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 3

MOSCOW, Sat. -- Stalin's funeral will take place at midday on Monday (7 p.m. Monday, Sydney time), Moscow Radio announced last night…

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Stalin's Funeral to Be Held

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 3

MOSCOW, Sat. -- Stalin's funeral will take place at midday on Monday (7 p.m. Monday, Sydney time) Moscow Radio announced last night…

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Stalin's Funeral to Be Held

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 3

MOSCOW, Sat.--Stalin's funeral will take place at midday on Monday (7 p.m. Monday, Sydney time), Moscow Radio announced last night…

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Stalin's Funeral to Be Held

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 3

MOSCOW, Sat. -- Stalin's funeral Will take place at midday on Monday (7 p.m. Monday, Sydney time), Moscow Radio announced last night…

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The Death of Stalin: an Evil Genius

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 2

For good or ill one of the greatest figures in world history—that is a judgment that none can seriously…

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Holiday meeting ends in death of two women

The Sun · Sunday 8 March 1953 · page 3

ON a sunny day in August, 1951, three people--two attractive women and a man--sat drinking in the palm-fringed beer-garden of the Surfers Paradise Hotel…

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Stalin's Funeral To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 March 1953 · page 1

LONDON, March 8 (A.A.P.).—A five-minutes' silence will be observed throughout Russia to-morrow during the funeral of Mr. Stalin…

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Death news of Stalin delayed Struggle for Power

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 March 1953 · page 5

LONDON, Sun. -- Joseph Stalin died a week ago-- in the night of Saturday, February 28. He died of a stroke while working…

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Thousands at Funeral

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 3

MOSCOW, Tues.--Silent thousands lined the streets of Moscow to pay homage to Stalin as his body was carried on. a gun carriage to the Red Square to be laid next…

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Thousands at Funeral

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 3

MOSCOW, Tues. -- Silent thousands lined the streets of Moscow to pay homage to Stalin as his body was carried on a gun carriage to the Red Square to be laid next…

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Thousands at Funeral

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 3

MOSCOW, Tues.--Silent thousands lined the streets of Moscow to pay homage to Stalin as his body was carried on a gun carriage to the Red Square to be laid next…

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Obituary

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 11

Aged 87 years, Mr. Charles Ormsby, of Hilltop Road, Merrylands, died on February 26. He is survived by…

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Death of Former Mayoress

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 12

Mrs. Mary Arabella Ohlsen, widow of former Mayor of Parramatta, Harry Ohlsen, died at her residence…

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Blazing Car His Funeral Pyre

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Wed. (Kemsley).-- North London police last night were trying to find a solution to a macabre puzzle: Why did James Richard Whitmill (50) go back, terribly burned, to die on a "funeral pyre" that was his own Ford saloon? Three theories are being…

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Blazing Car His Funeral Pyre

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Wed. (Kemsley).--North London police last night were trying to find a solution to a macabre puzzle: Why did James Richard Whitmill (50) go back, terribly burned, to die on a "funeral pyre" that was his own Ford saloon? Three theories are being…

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Blazing Car His Funeral Pyre

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Wed. (Kemsley).--North London police last night were trying to find a solution to a macabre puzzle: Why did James Richard Whitmill (50) go back, terribly burned, to die on a "funeral pyre" that was his own Ford saloon? Three theories are being…

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OBITUARY Captain W. G. Lawrence

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 1

We regret to report the death at Sydney on March 5 of Captain William Gingell Lawrence, general secretary of the Merchant…

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