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Remembering the ‘Nashos’ By Mick BIRTLES THIS year marks 75 years since Australia first introduced National Service and for many families across the Nambucca Valley, it’s not just a chapter in the history books. It’s personal. It’s the uncle who disappeared off to basic training during the footy season. The apprentice who swapped overalls for khaki. The 20-year-old whose birthday number came up in the “lottery” and suddenly found himself bound for the other side of the world. In the decades following World War II, compulsory National Service called thousands of young Australian men into uniform through a ballot system commonly known as the “birthday lottery”. Between 1964 and 1972 alone, more than 60,000 Australians were called up, with over 15,000 serving in Vietnam.
q Nashos Ray Bartlett, Alan Dollin, Don McKenzie and Richard Greentree with President of the Nambucca Heads RSL sub-Branch, Denis Lane.
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Elderly Macksville woman mauled by two dogs
By Andrew VIVIAN
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TWO Macksville teenagers are being hailed heroes for saving 91-year-old Shirley Laverty from a horrific ordeal.
Mrs Laverty was leisurely gardening on Saturday evening, 31 January, when she was attacked and viciously
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mauled by two dogs. Emergency services
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