Gallant Bid to Save Surrounded Troops Evacuation Proceeds Under Withering Fire "Military Classic If Even Half the Army Is Rescued" Thousands of Men Already Back on English Shores London
The Young Chronicle · Friday 31 May 1940 · page 2
The beseiged B.E.F. is making an epic stand against the enemy at the coast and large numbers of troops have already been evacuated, thousands having safely reached English…
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Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 2
Mr. H. H. Bridge, joint hon. secretary of the Yass Bushfire Brigade, issues an appeal to-day to graziers to pay their levies to the brigade in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Over a Thousand Bombs Dropped on Paris About 300 German Planes In The Raid Nazis Hit Eight Schools 45 Killed; 149 Injured And 13 Fires Started
Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 5
PARIS, Monday: Paris had the first large scale raid of the war when 1050 bombs, falling in an area nine miles wide, killed 45 and injured 149. The city itself had eight dead and 54 wounded, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire In Parkes Paper Office
Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 June 1940 · page 5
PARKES, Monday: The Champion Post, one of the oldest newspaper in the central west was partly destroyed by fire late last night…
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The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 11 June 1940 · page 2
Notification that a bush fires conference would be held at Cootamundra on July 11 was given by Jindalee Shire Council at yesterday's meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Scene of Devastation and Death Paris Centre Of Inferno German Bombers Rain Fire And Havoc
Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 13 June 1940 · page 5
LONDON, Wednesday: Total darkness throughout the night grips Paris, whose centre is deathly silent, but from the north-western fringes gunfire is growing louder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gunning News Bushfire Brigade Equipment to be Overhauled
Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 13 June 1940 · page 4
A meeting of the captains and members of the Gunning Bushfire Brigade was held in the Literary Institute on Saturday afternoon, June…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chimney on Fire
The Young Chronicle · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 2
The Young fire brigade, which has had a quiet time since the remarkable series of fires in the summer months, received a call at 7.20 on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Blaze Mother And Children Escape
Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 18 June 1940 · page 1
CROOKWELL: A woman and two children were temporarily trapped in a blazing motor car in Goulburn Street on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Upkeep Of Bushfire Brigades
Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 18 June 1940 · page 8
CROOKWELL "Whilst the Government recognises the very important community service provided by the bushfire brigades, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shock for Crookwell Problem Over Fire Insurance
Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 19 June 1940 · page 8
CROOKWELL: Because the water mains in Crookwell [?] placed in the lanes and not in the streets, the Fire Under,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No Govt. Funds for Rush Fire Brigades Says Premier Mair
Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 19 June 1940 · page 2
Recently, at the instance of Cr. O'Brien, the Crookwell Shire Council made a request to the State Government for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shock for Council Fire Underwriters' Association Objects-to Mains in Back Lanes
Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 19 June 1940 · page 7
The Fire Underwriters' Association has upset the calculations of the Crookwell Shire Council. An old saying has it that it is a long…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Alan Wicks Appointment With Fire Brigade
Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 20 June 1940 · page 4
Mr. Alan Wicks, a member of toe volunteer staff of the Goulburn Fire Brigade, will commence duties on the permanent staff of the New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Smouldering Fat Caused Fire Alarm
The Young Chronicle · Friday 21 June 1940 · page 2
The fire siren served as an admirable alarm clock for many people this morning, when it was sounded at 7.20, it being thought that a fire had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Light Pole Fire
Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 24 June 1940 · page 4
The blowing of a fuse on an electric light pole at the corner of Citizen and Victoria Streets caused a small fire at 6.15 on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Low Flyers Meet A Wall Of Fire
Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 27 June 1940 · page 2
In a British arms factory work goes forward on 40 m.m. anti-aircraft guns used by Britain as a defensive measure against low flying attack from the air…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Keeping the Home Fires Burning. Soldier's Wife Takes His Place as Secretary
The Young Chronicle · Friday 28 June 1940 · page 3
With their husbands answering their country's call, women throughout the world are helping to keep the home fires burning by quietly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Goulburn Fires January-June Review
Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 1 July 1940 · page 1
Figures relative to the activities of the Goulburn Fire Brigade between January and June of this year have been made…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clothes Caught on Fire
Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 July 1940 · page 2
On Saturday Mrs. H. Wilson, who is 74 years of age, and lives with her son at William’s Creek, Murrumbateman, was burning off in a…
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