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

The wars & local soldiers, 1941

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War in Africa

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday (B.O.W.): The R.A.F. carried out raids over a number of Italian aerodromes in Libya and many machines were destroyed…

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War Savings Certificates

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 2

The secretary of the Goulburn and District Patriotic and War Fund, Mr. F. D. Davies, has received a letter urging him to send chain letters to…

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War Factory Bathurst Activity

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 6

Contractors are working day and night on excavations at the Bathurst munitions factory site on the Blayney Road…

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War Orders Goulburn Firms Making Boots And Tools

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 2

Two Goulburn firms, Baxter & Co. and J. Turner & Sons, are busily engaged in filling war orders on behalf of the…

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Times on Soviet Claim "Attempting To Prolong War"

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: Russia is trying to prolong the war between Britain and Germany. There is no doubt about this in well-informed circles,…

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Splendid Record Gunning Public School Pupils' Contribution to War Funds

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 6

The combined efforts of the pupils attending the Gunning Public School have certainly been rewarded with a full measure of…

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Light Horse Enlistment Of Volunteers

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 6

Recruiting in the 7th Light Horse Regiment is continuing at a satisfactory rate, in spite of the fact that men liable under…

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War Time Golf Rules In Britain

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 6

The Rules of Golf, -those awe somethings with penalties and decisions scattered over innumerable printed pages. are guaranteed to begin an…

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Stock Drive Binalong Patriotic and War Fund

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 2

The stock drive in aid of the Binalong Patriotic and War Fund has met with a very ready and generous response and up to date 130 fat sheep…

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Strikes in War Time An Unusual Suggestion

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 3

Mr .Michael Sawtell in a letter to the “Sydney Morning Herald” puts forward an unusual viewpoint. He writes:—…

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Founded on Five Shillings London Perfumers Double War Exports

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 4

Since the war began, one famous London firm of perfumers has not only increased its export,, but, in the flow of regular monthly…

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Wyalong Public Became Hostile When Italy Entered the War Restaurant Proprietor's Troubles

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 4

A statement that after Italy's entry into the war it had become Impossible for him to carry on his business at West Wyalong,…

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World of Women the Modern Girl War Has Not Upset Her Balance But Life's Tempo Has Been Speeded Up

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 2

When war comes, the Pecksniffs, the Grundys, the Paul Prys and the Peeping Toms spring to action. Already, writes Humphrey Hume from London, we have heard endless tales of the shamelessness of the modern girl in general and…

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Soldiers' Annexe

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 2

Children at the District Hospital will not be transferred to the soldiers' annexe until the result of the conference between Colonel…

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Soldiers’ Memorial & Literary Institute Small Fire on Boxing Day Ticket Office at Front of Building

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 5

The monthly meeting of the Soldiers’ Memorial and Literary Institute was held on Tuesday evening. The president, Mr. W. T. Merriman,…

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Casualty List Taralga Man Is Wounded

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: The casualty list issued for New South Wales contains the names of one killed in action, one man missing and 60…

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"War Just Beginning"

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.): "The splendid Imperial Army of the Nile has become the spearhead of Britain's regained military…

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Italy's War Deliberately Willed

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday (B.O.W.): Speaking at Glasgow this evening the Minister for the Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, said that the Italian…

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Soldier's Plight Uniform Disappeared

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 4

Discovery by police of an A.I.F. uniform and pair of military boots, which were found on a fence close to the banks of…

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"All Well" Soldier's Letter Home

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 4

In a letter to his relatives, Pte. B. L. Kuschert, of Goulburn, who is serving abroad with the A.I.F., mentions that he, together with other…

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