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Red and green flares burst like a fountain of joyful fireworks from the German lines. Other flares, white ones, rose and fell in endless succession. Machine-guns rattled from a score of points and the crackling of bombs could be heard. The wounded began to limp back. A man with only half of his face.
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Warnecke and Nora returned to
Australia in 1947 and remained there for the next ten years. He wrote for several newspapers, but no longer worked as an editor. He served as a consultant to Murdoch and tried his hand at publishing which he described to friends as the "Intelligent Young Man’s Guide to
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Warnecke's settled in Dublin where George became the "resident patriarch" of the Irish-Australian Society. His last years were increasingly marked by deafness and illness, but he continued writing up until his death. When he died in Dublin's Meath Hospital at the age of 86, he left three books
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became the de facto editor of "the weekly" even though
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for which he had received a grant from the
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with the 19th
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Warnecke's relations with Frank Packer became increasingly strained after 1935 and in April 1939 he resigned from
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sympathies which
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of the 1950s. The company ceased publication in 1958. Jack Bellew had died in 1957. That same year
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Give it an unswerving Australian outlook Above all, whether the journalists are writing about fashion, cookery, baby care or diet there has to be a element of news in what they write.
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as "the story of a young, idealistic patriot transformed by the horrors of World War I into a man old before his time." His diary entry on his 20th birthday in July 1916 read:
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procession. In London he also met and fell in love with the Irish soprano, Nora Hill. The couple returned to Australia later in 1924 and were married there on 18 October.
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The Australian Women's Weekly Fashion: The First 50 Years
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