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

The wars & local soldiers, 1942

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Postal Information War Postage

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 5

A surcharge of ½d per article is to be added to all postage rates with the following exceptions: (a) Postal articles to and from members of…

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Biggest Raid Since War

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 2

A young Australian pilot who took part in the biggest Royal Air Force offensive since the war began, describes how he shot down a German Messerschmitt fighter aircraft "It just blew to bits," he tells his friend, who had himself accounted for…

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Canberra Police Services In War Effort

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 3

Members of the Canberra Force recently offered their services to the Government for use in any capacity in the war effort…

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Booked for War Outsiders Are Barred

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 4

LONDON, The town of X——, which has more than 100,000 inhabitants, is barred to outsiders. A few nights ago a census of rooms and…

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New Year 1942 100 P.C. War Effort

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 1

With war in the Pacific, the year 1942 can only be one of grim realities, producing immense and far-reaching changes…

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War Prisoners Goulburn Appeal

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 1

Contributions to the Prisoners of War Fund are still being handed to the treasurer, Mr. H. V. London; and when other functions have been…

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Radio in the War Outstanding Use

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 2

Since the start of the war Britain has made remarkable progress in applying radio to war purposes. Radio-location is of course, the…

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"Vital Year Ahead" Bishop On War Situation

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 2

"This year will surely be one of the most momentous in our history. Never before have we been involved in a war that…

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Local Timber What The War Has Proved

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 6

Cut off from usual supplies. Victoria has, had to rely more extensively on local timbers for a variety of purposes for which…

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Soldiers III Twenty-Seven Cases

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 2

A large number of the patients under treatment at the Goulburn District Hospital to-day were members of the Light Horse…

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R.S.S.A.l. LEAGUE Preference to Returned Men

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 5 January 1942 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the Yass branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League was held in the card room of the Soldiers’ Club on Saturday night…

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Japan's War Holiday

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 January 1942 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sunday: Tokyo Official Radio says the Japanese Government has directed that the eighth day of every month be celebrated…

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Australia As Base in War

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 January 1942 · page 5

CANBERRA, Monday: Increasing support is noted in well-informed quarters for the view that Australia is certain to become the main base…

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Prisoners of War Good Effort At Rugby

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 January 1942 · page 2

RUGBY: The Red Cross Society branch organised a New year dance in aid of the Prisoners of War Fund…

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Stars of the Air" War Causes Music Blockade

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 5 January 1942 · page 4

Curtailment of music supplies, as well as of musical celebrities, is a war-time problem for the A.B.C. Ernest Pass, its Federal Music…

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One Supreme Command Wavell In Charge Of Pacific War

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 January 1942 · page 3

It was simultaneously announced in Canberra and Washington at the week-end that all anti-Axis sea, land, and air forces…

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Adventures in Europe When War Came

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 6

Four times bombed, under the earth for four hours, and on one occasion burled ten feet in the air by the explosion of a bomb…

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War Prisoners Goulburn Fund

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 2

After a meeting of the stall-holders and workers of the Caledonian Market next Tuesday an additional amount of…

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Men for War Work Ninety Trained In Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 2

Since instruction in defence training commenced at the Goulburn Technical College in. July, 1940, 90 trainees have completed…

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Roosevelt Speaks 60,000 Planes in the Year 125,000 Next Year 56 Per Cent of Income Goes in War

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 3

President Roosevelt, in his address to Congress, said the expenditure on war would jump from 15 per cent of the national income to 56 per cent…

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