RETURN TO AUSTRALIA
I Servicemen’s Bodies I <N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) i CANBERRA, Jan. 21. j The bodies of all Austral-• ian servicemen who died overseas would be returned to! Australia at public expense if! their families requested it, I the acting Minister for De-i fence (Mr Hulme) said to-l day. He said the policy—a re-1 ■reversal of Australia’s usual! practice, would apply to exist-! ing circumstances only. It! .would be necessary to return! |to war-time procedures if' 'operational demands on trans-; 'port became too great.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30965, 22 January 1966, Page 13
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