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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1940

1,933 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 34 of 97

Have Applied for Enlistment

The Young Chronicle · Friday 31 May 1940 · page 2

Among the residents of Young who have applied for enlistment in the A.I.F. are Messrs. Charlie Hardy, W. Cavanagh, John Foster, W. Grime…

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Honour Roll Men Who Have Enlisted

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 1

With each day the Post's Honour Roll, embracing the names of Goulburn and district men who have enlisted for service…

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Searching for Wounded

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 1

Cries for assistance from victims who survived the Nazi bombing raids on Amsterdam were quickly answered by the town's voluntary air-raid defenders. Here a band of them is climbing over the shambles that was once a building…

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Special Goulburn War Sale

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 1

On Wednesday, July 10, the proceeds of everything sold will be paid into the patriotic funds…

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Oiling the War Sidelight On Constantsa

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 7

In the sprawling, smelly. Rumanian port of Constantsa in February, a tough gang of greasy longshoremen looked expectantly…

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Drive at Crookwell Sale Of War Certificates

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 1

CROOKWELL: A committee for the promotion of sales of War Savings Certificates hi the Crookwell district has been…

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War Fund Country Bodies Allowed Ten Delegates Yass Included in Goulburn

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 3

In accordance with a request by the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Ald. S. S. Crick, the Goulburn District Patriotic and War Fund…

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Goulburn and War Fund Money May Be Paid Into This Office

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 4

With the approval of the Mayor, Ald. T. P. Manion, and executive of the Lord Mayor's Fund, the Goulburn Evening Post is opening at fund, proceeds from which will be paid into the…

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What Is The Nature Of Life Nature Of Struggle That Leads To War

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 3

"Every normal person desires to make something of his life. It is of the very nature of life to struggle towards significance. In man the effort to make life mean something,…

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Yass District Patriotic and War Fund Big Job Co-operation Sought Local Fund £549

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 2

The committee of the Yass District Patriotic and War Fund in soliciting further donations from the people of Yass and district, takes this…

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The War Enrol Now Home Defence Training Learn How to Use a Rifle (To the Editor)

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 2

Sir,—We are frankly making an appeal to all men of Yass and district who perhaps from age, physical standards or occupation, are…

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Gave Up Farms To Enlist

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 1

"Harry Peck, of Tullamore, declared that he would go to the war. He closed his cafe and wine saloon and gave his 1939 lorry to…

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The Post Enlisted Men Mark Time Recruiting System to the Editor

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 3

Sir What is wrong with our recruiting organisation? I know for a fact that many men have been enlisted for weeks without…

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Children Yield To Soldiers

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday When 50,000 children in 97 special trains evacuated the towns on the east and south-east coasts to-day for the midlands…

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Young Men Enlisting

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 2

The flower of the young manhood of this town is rapidly enlisting. Before the end of the winter there will be a great change in…

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Printers' War Effort

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 1

Don't forget the Big Show in the Town Hall next Monday night. The printers of Young have arranged a monster euchre party…

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£5000 Young's War Effort

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 2

In ten days Young Patriotic Fund has reached and passed the £500 objective set by the public. meeting at the Town Hall on…

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War Savings Kenmore Forms Group

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 7

It is expected that a minimum of £10 a week will be invested in War Savings Certificates as the result of a decision reached…

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Smoke and Wreckage of War

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 4

Scene in Namur, Belgium, after Nazi bombers had done their deadly work. Houses on both sides of this street were wrecked, debris almost covering the roadway. Namur was one of the Belgian fortress towns which held out so gallantly…

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Gave Up Picnic for War Funds Kiddies' Gesture. Thuddungra

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 4

Some time ago, the annual school picnic was arranged for September, but the serious developments in Europe have resulted in the picnic…

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