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The wars & local soldiers, 1946

6,874 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250

Scene At Cenotaph; Ex-Soldier Fined

The Sun · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 2

An ex-soldier who yesterday climbed the Cenotaph in Martin-place and draped some of the figures with flowers, said…

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Blow To Soldiers

The Sun · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 4

The Army Minister's failure to take advantage of the proffered use of RN ships to bring home our men will come as a…

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Soldier Fined £5 Over Cenotaph incidents

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 3

A returned soldier who climbed onto the Cenotaph in Martin Place yesterday and decorated the memorial figures with garlands of flowers, pleaded guilty to four charges at Central Court today and was fined a total of £5…

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Woman Shot Dead at Townsville Policeman Wounded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 1

TOWNSVILLE. Friday. — A young woman was shot dead and a policeman was so critically wounded that he is not expected…

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War Against Bushfires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 2

THE bushfire season is here again —that annual threat which is extremely widespread this year, because of the general winter rains…

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German Marshal Frank About War

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 6

NUREMBURG, Saturday. -- If the German General Staff has been expecting to avoid retribution by posing as professionals…

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Man O' War Best Moorefield Bet

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 8

Man O' War (Peter Moore Handicap) is given as the best bet at Moorefield today. AT the top of his form, Man o' War beat Wellington with some to spare at Randwick…

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Wants Nazi War Chiefs Made Illegal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 2

NUREMBERG, Friday.--The prosecution today asked the Allied War Crimes Tribunal at…

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Man O' War Best Moorefield Bet

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 8

Man O' War (Peter Moore Handicap) is given as the best bet at Moorefield today. AT the top of his form. Man o' War beat Wellington with some to spare at Randwick…

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Man O' War Eases Heavy Backing For 3 Rivals

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 24

Heavy backing yesterday for Wellington, Active Service, and Columnist in today's Peter Moore Handicap (mile) at Moorefield caused Man o'…

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Soldier Bet With Crown Jewels —Thought They Were Class AIF veterans who proudly claim to have played two-up with handfuls of Greek drachma, Egyptian piastres, Palestinian milles, Malay dollars and Indion rupees are just pikers when compared with George Ryan. George, an American soldier of fortune, used Hawaii's crown jewels for gambling currency — and lost

The World's News · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 6

PROBABLY the most fantastic crap game—that's Amerieanese for "dice"—ever played by a group of gambling soldiers was held in…

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Protests On Soldiers' 'Job Scramble'

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 4

Returned soldiers' organisation are perturbed about the chances of Servicemen being rapidly absorbed into industry in view of existing…

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Workless Soldiers

The Sun · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 3

"Published statements that 11,000 discharged servicemen in NSW had no jobs to go to when they left the…

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Soldiers' Land Safe

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 5

IN every case brought to the notice of RSL and then in turn to NSW Housing Commission, resumption…

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Hard Battle on the Land Soldier family gets no help

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 5

HARD struggle to carry on, first in the absence of her husband who enlisted in 1939, and then without even…

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Thousands Of Ex-soldiers On Dole Many Unable to Find Work Since Discharge

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 5

Within three months of the start of general demobilisation, several thousand ex-servicemen are on the dole in New South Wales. At the end of December, 1800 ex-servicemen were…

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Soldier On Murder Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--A soldier was charged today with having killed an officer who had "crimed" him for being drunk…

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Soldiers Seek Taxi Licences

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 2

Hundreds of ex-servicemen were seeking taxi licences, a R.S.L. official (Mr. Lenehan) said today…

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Soldiers Home Tomorrow

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 9

THE Canberra, with 567 men from Wewak, is expected to berth at 6 Glebe at 8.30 a.m. tomorrow. At Newcastle today the…

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Soldiers Home Tomorrow

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 1

THE Canberra, with 567 men from Wewak, is expected to berth, at 6 Glebe at 8.30 a.m. tomorrow…

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