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The wars & local soldiers, 1944

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Full Pension Benefits For Family Of War Veteran

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 August 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--Full pension benefits are to be paid to eight children of William Atkins Bigold, 52, war veteran, who died in…

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Education Department's Post-war Plans

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 August 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.--The Education Department will probably provide for an expenditure of £10,000,000 on post-war…

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Australia in Port. Gentleman's War Say Some Of Crew

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 August 1944 · page 3

Unscathed after five months' continuous operations in the New Guinea and New Britain areas the cruiser Australia has…

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£15,000 For War Loan From County Council Out Of Cash Reserve

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 August 1944 · page 1

Yesterday's meeting of the Clarence River County Council decided to invest £15,000 in the coming War Loan. This was done on the suggestion of…

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Women Take Part In War In Paris

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 August 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Tues.--Although Paris is in Allied hands a war in which a number of women are taking an active part is…

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Admiral Of Fleet On End Of War

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 August 1944 · page 3

MONTREAL, Man--Address the Canadian Club, the Admiral of the Fleet, Baron Keyes, said he believed the…

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India's Famine Affects The War Effort And Concerns Australia

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 August 1944 · page 2

The worst famine, in history has claimed millions of valuable lives in India. The resources of the Indian Food Relief Kitchens are…

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Medals and Gratuity From Last War Handed To Officer

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 August 1944 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wed.--His war medals and gratuity have now been received by A. G. Whitlam, who in July established his…

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War In Pacific Within Prospect Of Finality Says Curtin

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 August 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wed.--The war in the Pacific is now within prospect of finality, said the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, in…

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War Correspondents Suspended In France

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 September 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Wed.--Six accredited correspondents in France have been suspended and ordered to London for further investigation,…

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Hungary In Front Of War News

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 September 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Wed.--It is Hungary's turn to be thrust into the forefront of the battle. While the Russian troops are…

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Prisoners of War in Germany on the Move

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 1 September 1944 · page 1

Letters now being received in Australia from prisoners of war in Germany reveal a story of rapid re-organisation within German homeland…

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Mechanical Revolution Will Follow the War Banishing Farm Drudgery

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 1 September 1944 · page 1

(Agriculture's mechanical revolution held in check by wartime production restrictions, is ready to break loose when peace comes…

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Our Open Column (To the Editor) a Different War

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 1 September 1944 · page 4

The events of the past fortnight in France will bring a flood of memories to Old Diggers, because they parallel in a hundred different ways,…

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Young Chinese Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 September 1944 · page 3

Chinese youths, serving with the Chinese Sixth Army, carry supplies for the offensive against the Japanese in the Salween River area, Yunnan Province. Chinese women and children are doing their part in bringing defeat to the Japanese. Many of…

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Argument In House: Woman Wounded

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 September 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.--Mrs. Thelma Turner, 23, of Redfern, was admitted to hospital early to-day when she was shot through the…

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Japs Hiding In Mountains Thought War Over

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 September 1944 · page 5

General MacArthur's Headquarters, Fri.--A small party of Japs hiding In the mountains behind Bogadjim thought the…

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Visits Chinese War Orphans

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 September 1944 · page 3

Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the President of China, smiles at a group of orphaned Chinese girls as she visits the new Chinese War Orphans Home near Chungking, the wartime capital of China. Too young to understand the reasons for their suffering, these…

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Latest War News For Prisoners

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 September 1944 · page 3

KANDY, Sun.--Liberators which bombed the Bangkok-Moulmein railway this week, carried thousands of leaflets…

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EDITORIAL. Five Years Of War

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 September 1944 · page 2

Five years ago, the British Government, faced with the fact that Hitler's solemn promises were as lacking in stability as…

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