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The wars & local soldiers, 1952

4,237 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 212

Destroyer Back From Korea War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 18

The destroyer H.M.A.S. Tobruk, one of the "little ships" which United Nations…

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Destroyer Back From Korea War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 18

The destroyer H.M.A.S. Tobruk, one of the "little ships" which United Nations…

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Tobruk bath from war in Korea

The Sun · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 3

The Australian destroyer Tobruk which returned to Sydney today from Korea carried the war right to the enemy hut was menaced only once-- by a floating mine which…

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Reds Driven Back in Indo-china War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 5

SAIGON, Tues.--Hitting back by staging their own ambushes against the rebels, the French troops are driving the Vietminh battalions back in the Red River delta area…

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Reds Driven Back in Indo-china War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 5

SAIGON, Tues.--Hitting back by staging their own ambushes against the rebels, the French troops are driving the Vietminh battalions- back in the Red River delta area…

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Reds Driven Back in Indo-china War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 5

SAIGON, Tues.--Hitting back by staging their own ambushes against the rebels, the French troops are driving the Vietminh battalions back in the Red River delta area…

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Reds Driven Back in Indo-china War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 5

SAIGON, Tues.--Hitting back by staging their own ambushes against the rebels, the French troops are driving the Vietminh battalions back in the Red River delta area…

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Reds Driven Back in Indo-china War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 5

SAIGON, Tues.--Hitting back by staging their own ambushes against the rebels, the French troops are driving the Vietminh battalions back in the Red River delta area…

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Reds Driven Back in Indo-china War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 5

SAIGON, Tues.--Hitting back by staging their own ambushes against the rebels, the French troops are driving the Vietminh battalions back in the Red River delta area…

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Reds Driven Back in Indo-china War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 5

SAIGON, Tues.--Hitting back by staging their own ambushes against, the rebels, the French troops are driving the Vietminh battalions back in the Red River delta area…

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Huge loss by rural industries in endless war on pests

The Sun · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 17

Pests-- from the ultra- tiny virus and the countless billions of insects to the rabbit and the fox-- are robbing this country of the fantastic fortune of an estimated £100,000,000 a year. Of all the multifarious…

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Power Switched On To Blacked-out Church For Funeral Of Soldier

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 6

Sydny County Council made power available at Gladesvilie today so that the electric organ at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church could be used for a funeral service during a blackout. Council officers took…

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Power Switched On To Blacked-out Church For Funeral Of Soldier

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 6

Sydney County Council made power available at Gladesville today so that the electric organ at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church could be used for a funeral service during a blackout. Council officers took…

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Power Switched On To Blacked-out Church For Funeral Of Soldier

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 6

Sydney County Council made power available at Gladesville today so that the electric organ at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church could be used for a funeral service during a blackout. Council officers took…

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Power Switched On To Blacked-out Church For Funeral Of Soldier

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 6

Sydney County Council made power available at Gladesville today so that the electric organ at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church could be used for a funeral service during a blackout. Council officers took…

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Korea-bound Troops Wave Farewell to Sydney As Ship Leaves Circular Quay Sydney Wishes Good Luck To Troops Off To War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 1

About 7,000 people yesterday went to No. 2 wharf, Circular Quay, to bid farewell and wish good luck to troops of the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, and New Zealand reinforcements, who left on the troopship Devonshire for the…

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Architecture in Post-war Europe

Construction · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 5

The destruction of the war and its sweeping away of so much of yesterday has undoubtedly given great fillip to the new forms in architecture and engineering. We illustrate three recent structures. (Top left) Observation tower at the Hanover Construction Exhibition, 1951. (Top right) The roof deck of a new Amsterdam factory. (Bottom) New department store…

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Sen. Cameron on Korea war

Tribune · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 11

The sensational and distorted attack in Parliament on Senator Don Cameron for alleged “sedition” has aroused wide interest in what he actually wrote ilk the Melbourne Labor Call article of February 14…

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SUN Readers Say War graves

The Sun · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 17

Further to your reference to the condition of wargraves at Singapore, it may interest many relatives and…

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US wanted all our war bases

Tribune · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 12

CANBERRA.—After the war America demanded practically every British base in the Pacific, on terms that were disadvantageous and…

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