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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
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The Foreign Minister, Mr. Aranha, today announced that Brazil's action in joining the United Nations as a full partner in the war against Italy and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Representatives of soldiers organisations in Sydney, and Melbourne, conferred today on the question at forming a Servicemen and Ex-Servicemen's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Word has bren received that Pte. K, A. Davis to killed in action, to New Guinea on January 20. Pte. Davis was born and reared in Broken Hill and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Winchcombe, Canon Ltd., report:—Latest mail advices indicate that the United States Government at Washington had reached agreement with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The former-President, Mr. Hoover, expressed the opinion today that it would be at least three years before Japan was defeated, and said prudence envisaged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No more members of the N.S.W. Police Force will be permitted to enlist, said the Deputy Director of Manpower, Mr. Bellemore, today. He added that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mrs. M. L. Rogers, of Blende Street, has been informed that the name of her son, Pte. C. L. ("Tubby") Rogers was placed on the Dangerously ill list on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY,—It was revealed by the Manpower Department today that soldiers in N.S.W. had been doing harvesting work in areas in which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mrs. P. Ferguston, was resides at Menindee, has received word that her son, Pte. Viv Ferguson, is a prisoner of war in Malaya. This is the first news…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Not content with the fact that he has been overseas fighting for his homeland ever since the war began, a well-known local soldier recently remitted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Russians have taken Kursk and Rostov is being threatened. They are moving closer to Kharkov, the fall of which would be an extremely major…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pte. Viv Ferguson is a prisoner of war in Malaya. That he is still alive was information that was welcome to an when received in Menindee late last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW DELHI, February 11.—No member of the British War Cabinet believes that the war will end before 1945, This was revealed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, February ll.—About 2,000,000 soldiers and sailors of all the nations at war lost their lives in battle or by drowning in 1942,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Following the death in hospital on January 29 of Reginald Dennis Hall, the City Coroner today committed Mervyn Thomas Gunton (21), a soldier, for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA.—In the House of Representatives today the AttorneyGeneral (Dr. Evatt) announced that Cyril Walter Thornton, alias Jack…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ptes. W. A. Butler. J. F. W. Lawn and J. L. Daniels, who are in Broken Hill on leave from New Guinea, desire to arrange a meeting with all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE. — The 21-year-old American soldier who is alleged to have stabbed Constable P. Holloway with a pocket knife yesterday is still…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Take it from me that when you hear, an you no doubt often do that the 'little' Jap is a good fighter, don't you take any notice of the 'little' part of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Lukuff, Ex-Bulgarian War Minister, was assassinated by several men when attacked in front of his house, according to a Berlin radio report. It…
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