Stop Press Fatally Wounded
MELBOURNE.—A 17-year-old girl fatally wounded herself with a shotgun at her home to-day while her parents were at…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1946
609 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 31
Grim Experiences of Sister Bulwinkel Wounded POW Cheats Death In The Jungle
Grim, and yet fascinating is the story of Sister Vivian Bulwinkel, one of Australia's heroic Nurses, who escaped death by inches and was a prisoner of war for nearly four years. Sister Bulwinkel, sole survivor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Soldier Seriously Ill
Sydney, January 14.—An Australian Military Forces casualty list issued today places on the seriously ill list Williams, Pte. R. A., Infantry, Broken Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers Denied Army Car
SYDNEY.—"Reports that the Commonwealth Disposals Commission sold 900 former Army vehicles at Lae at an average price of 30/ each to a group of dealers from the mainland will make bitter reading for returned servicemen who have no opportunity to get used Army vehicles to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Story of Jap Atrocities Attempt To Freeze Soldiers To Death; Sentence Review
TOKIO, January 14.—A Japanese captain was responsible for deliberate attempts to freeze British soldiers to death, it was stated at the War Criminal Trial in Yokohama today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Churchill In America Pearl Harbor Turned The War
New York, January 15.—Mr. and Mrs. Churchill good humoredly faced a large press conference when they arrived here today by the Queen Elizabeth for a two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returned Soldier On Murder Charge
Adelaide, January 1[?].—A returned soldier William Herbert Batten (20) now discharged from the forces, was remanded at the Lameron Police Court today on a…
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SAN FRANCISCO, January 15.— A large party of New Zealand wives of American servicemen, who reached San Francisco today with their 75…
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On the movement 61 Urn AIF to the Middle East, an Australian War Graves Unit accompanied the force for the purpose of locating and recording all…
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LONDON, January 17.âMrs. Edmund Doerr, formerly Miss Margaret Corpe, of Port Noarlunga, South Australia, is the first Australian-born woman to be repatriated from Germany since the end of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →400 U.s. Soldiers Send Telegram to New York Paper Demobilisation Plans Denounced
Despite General Eisenhower's explanation of the slow down in U.S. demobilization, 400 soldiers in an Army Air Force depot in Germany have Hent "New York…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Jockeys Get Licences
MELBOURNE.—Four jockeys, R. J. Healey, R. McLaren, I. Rohloff, and R. Rollison, who have been on active service in the A.I.F. and the R.A.A.F.,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Declared on Rabbits
Molong P.P. Board has a fight on its hands. It has declared war on the rabbit, and from all accounts, it is going to be a fierce war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Bride Resuming Trip After Smash
LONDON, January 20.—Mrs. Ellen Reid, one of two injured persons admitted to St. Thomas's Hospital after the Waterloo train smash four days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Protest In U.S. Against Soldier's Death Sentence
New, York. January 19.—Sentence of death passed on Joseph E. Hiscwa an American soldier, for allegedly having murdered two Japanese civilians…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Official Date Of War's End
Canberra, January 21.—September 2. 1945, should be regarded as the date on which hostilities ceased with Japan as far as Australia is concerned, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Damage Claim of N.g. Goldfields Ltd
MELBOURNE.—About £250,000 is involved in the claim on the War Damage Commission by New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., said the chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Official Plaque for Graves of Soldiers
CANBERRA.—The War Cabinet has decided that when deceased Australians who are elgible for war graves are buried in privately made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers' Rights of Preference
CANBERRA.—All legal rights of exservicemen of this was and the 1914-18 war to preference in Employment will terminate on September 2, 1952…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Crime Trials Of Japs Indian Troops Were Fiendlishly Treated
Singapore, January 21.—The Associated Press special representative reports that when the first war crimes trials in South-East commenced at…
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