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

The wars & local soldiers, 1944

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Patriotic and War Fund Annual Meeting To-morrow Night

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 23 November 1944 · page 2

The annual general meeting of the yass and District Patriotic the and War Fund will be held in the Memorial Hall…

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Gunning Returned Soldiers’ League Helping Old Diggers

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 23 November 1944 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the Gunning branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League was held in the Literary Institute on Saturday…

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Where Australian Soldiers Rest

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 23 November 1944 · page 2

Mrs. D. Winter has received from her son, L./Corporal David Winter (at present seriously ill in hospital in…

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Honour Roll Lance Corporal David Edward Winter

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 27 November 1944 · page 2

In our last issue it was reported that L. Corporal David Edward Winter was seriously ill in hospital in New Guinea…

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War in Burma

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 27 November 1944 · page 2

NEW DELHI, Sunday: The Chinese attack on Bhamo seems to have settled down to a siege, according to the Associated Sultan's…

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Patriotic and War Fund Notable Year’s Work Fifth Annual Report

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 27 November 1944 · page 1

The annual meeting of the Yass and District Patriotic and War Fund was held in the former Reading Room of the Soldiers…

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Goulburn Street War Savings Groups Scheme

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 29 November 1944 · page 3

A recent audit of the record of the Street Savings Groups Scheme reveals that £5130 has been invested by contributors to the scheme. The Scheme was started just…

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Veterans of World War II

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 30 November 1944 · page 1

THERE are no military honours for dairy farmers. No flags. No bands. Just long hours of toil—…

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End of the War Warning by Churchill

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 30 November 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: Mr. Churchill warned the House of Commons yesterday against a belief that the war would be…

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D.D.T. Hailed As Greatest Find of Decade Will Stop Epidemics After The War

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 30 November 1944 · page 5

Following the unprecedented success achieved by the new insecticide known as D.D.T. in combating the typhus epidemic which broke…

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Prisoners of War Telegram Service

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 December 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA: The Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Evatt, and the Postmaster-General Senator Ashley in a joint statement…

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Air War 200 Planes an Hour

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 December 1944 · page 3

During the last 36 hours 10,000 planes maintained an incessant attack on Germany. Twelve hundred American heavies…

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Cost of War U.S. Casualties to Date

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 December 1944 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Thursday: United States Casualties new total 536,950 the Secretary for the Army, Mr. Stimson, said…

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Senate Debate Attended by Soldier Patients

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 December 1944 · page 1

CANBERRA: Atmosphere was given to the preference debate in she senate yesterday by the presence in the public galleries of 50…

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The War

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 4 December 1944 · page 2

"That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along." So seems the war in its main phases to-day…

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Prisoners of War Telegram Service

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 December 1944 · page 2

The Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Evatt, and the Postmaster General, Senator Ashley, in a joint statement on Friday, said that a…

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Returned Soldiers New Zealand sets Rehabilitation Example

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 December 1944 · page 2

New Zealand was described as a “returned soldier‘s Utopia” by Mr. K. MeL. Bolton on his return to Sydney…

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War Veterans' Art Union

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 2

Holders of tickets and ticket books in the above Art Union are reminded that the closing date is Monday, December 11, 1944 and…

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Civil War Feared In Greece

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday: British troops, who have met and overcome one emergency after another in the…

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Poignant Plea for War Babies

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 6 December 1944 · page 2

WASHINGTON. Tuesday: The Chicago Tribune has published the following letter from the president of the Auckland (N.Z.)…

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