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The wars & local soldiers, 1947

4,665 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 234

War Gave Us Brighter Backyards Garden Notes

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 4

AS we enter 1947, hoping to find in it a brighter and more peaceful existence, it is well to…

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Police "Chain" Saves Soldier

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Pour wireless-patrol police saved a soldier from drowning in the Yarra early today when they…

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Late News Phone: M2406 Three British Soldiers Hurt in Mine Explosion

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 28

LONDON, Friday.--Three soldiers of the British Sixth Airborne Division were injured today in a mine explosion near Tel Aviv…

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6 Soldiers Shot Dead In Africa

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.).--Native troops today shot dead six African soldiers and wounded 10 others in a demonstration in…

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Soldier Patients Invited to Matinee

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 8

Returned servicemen at the 113th Australian General Hospital, Yaralla, have been invited to the matinee of "Sweet Nell of Old Drury" at the…

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U.s. Ex-soldiers "Look to Aust."

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 8

Hundreds of young American ex-servicemen were looking to Australia as a refuge from the depression which they were certain would hit America within three years, a U.S…

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U.S. Dead Soldier Leave Scholarship To Jap Flier

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK, Saturday.--A former member of Japan's Kamikaze (Suicide pilots) Corps yesterday received a scholar- ship to the La Fayette College at Easton (Fenn.), created by the parents of an American soldier killed on Lazon…

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U.S. Dead Soldier Leaves Scholarship To Jap Flier

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 8

NEW YORK, Saturday.--A former member of Japan's Kamikaze (Suicide pilots) Corps yesterday received a scholarship to the La Fayette College at Easton (Penn.), created by the parents of an American soldier killed on Luzon…

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U.S. Dead Soldier Leaves Scholarship To Jap Flier

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 8

NEW YORK, Saturday.--A former member of Japan's Kamikaze (Suicide pilots) Corps yesterday received a scholarship to the La Fayette College at Easton (Penn.), created by the parents of an American soldier killed on Luzon…

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Italian Blackmarkets Get The Goods England Badly Needs While British people work their hardest on meagre rations, try to look smart in their dull austerity clothes, try to be cheerful with a future that can offer them nothing but hard work with a promise of a better way of life in the very distant future, their former enemies and "co-belligerents," the Italians, are running a vast blackmarket in British goods, trading the very articles for which British people are starved. This is one of the most startling despatches to come from Italy since the war ended

The World's News · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 4

I HAVE been in Italy a month. During the years I was blitzed, buzzbombed and V2-ed from one end of London to the other, I thought Italy…

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Quadruplets born To War Bride

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1947 · page 43

QUADRUPLETS—three boys and a girl—were recently born at Baltimore to a British war bride, Mrs. Charles Henn, who has…

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Two war romances had happy endings

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 January 1947 · page 22

HOLLYWOOD, Sat. -- To film stars Illona Massey and Burt Lancaster this week came the luck of hundreds of ordinary citizens -- a happy ending to romances which began overseas in World War II…

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War on Careless Riding Two More Heads Crash To Stipes' Scythe

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1947 · page 3

A.J.C. stewards continued their sweep against careless riding at Moorefield yesterday and two more prominent horsemen were relegated to the stands for their failure to ride in a manner necessary for the safety of rivals…

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War Bride's Alleged Big Thefts

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 5

NEW YORK, Sunday.-- A gorgeously befurred 23-year-old English war bride was arrested today…

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Terrorists Attack Train in Egypt Troops For Palestine Wounded Searchers Raid Haifa Villages

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 5

LONDON, Monday. -- Terrorists attacked a train, carrying civilians and British soldiers for Palestine, a few miles from Cairo, yesterday…

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Terrorists Attack Train in Egypt Troops For Palestine Wounded Searchers Raid Haifa Villages

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 5

LONDON, Monday. -- Terrorists attacked a train, carrying civilians and British soldiers for Palestine, a few miles from Cairo, yesterday…

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Terrorists Attack Train in Egypt Troops For Palestine Wounded Searchers Raid Haifa Villages

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 5

LONDON, Monday. -- Terrorists attacked a train, carrying civilians and British soldiers for Palestine, a few miles from Cairo, yesterday…

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Terrorists Attack Train in Egypt Troops For Palestine Wounded Searchers Raid Haifa Villages

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 5

LONDON, Monday. -- Terrorists attacked a train, carrying civilians and British soldiers for Palestine, a few miles from Cairo, yesterday…

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Terrorists Attack Train in Egypt Troops For Palestine Wounded Searchers Raid Haifa Villages

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 5

LONDON, Monday. -- Terrorists attacked a train, carrying civilians and British soldiers for Palestine, a few miles from Cairo, yesterday…

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Terrorists Attack Train in Egypt Troops For Palestine Wounded Searchers Raid Haifa Villages

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 5

LONDON, Monday. -- Terrorists attacked a train, carrying civilians and British soldiers for Palestine, a few miles from Cairo, yesterday…

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