Upper Bowman Boys Wounded Private Russell Grant Dangerously Ill
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Grant, of Upper Bowman, recently received word that their son, Russell Grant, of the A.I.F., had been wounded, and was on the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
2,498 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 125
European War Over In 1944
ALGIERS January 17.— “Our sim must be to tighten and intensify the situation on the eastern front so that when the weakest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"War Will Not End Quickly" New York, Jan. 14
The Secretary for the Navy, Colonel Knox, told a Press conference at Cleveland that a quick ending of the war was unlikely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Message from Prisoner of War Pte. M. J. McGOLDRICK
Mrs. M. A. McGoldrick, muscle Creek, has been advised by the Department of the Army that the following letter, alleged by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seasonal Work by Soldiers
Soldiers of a rank not higher than Sergeant, who had been granted leave without pay to do seasonal farm work, will be exempted from tax deductions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cootamundra Fires Soldiers and Residents Fighting Flames
Aided by soldiers equipped with mobile fire-fighting equipment, thousands of residents in Cootamundra district to-day continued…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fight for Preference Case for Returned Soldiers
The Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen’s League will again have to fight the cause of the returned man. This was the opinion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Fight Bush Fires
SYDNEY Tuesday—Aided by soldiers equipped with mobile fire-fighting equipment and water tanks, thousands of residents in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yugoslav Leader Wounded In Action
LONDON Jan. 18.— According Cairo radio, Marshal Broz-Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Army of Liberation, has been wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Repatriation of War Prisoners
LONDON Jan. 18.—Replying to a question in the House of Commons regarding repatriation of prisoners of war, who have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pictures From the World at War
U.S. SOLDIERS FERRY PRISONERS. U.S. soldiers (right) guard German prisoners of war being taken back across the Volturno River, north of Naples, Italy, on a pontoon boat. These Germans were the prisoners taken by the Allied…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Nazi Disasters Shock Japs" Revising War Plans
"It is becoming increasingly apparent that the Japanese are deeply worried and shocked by the German disasters in Europe,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War in Pacific Four More Years Predicted
There are still four more years of bloody and bitter warfare ahead in the Pacific, said Norman Lodge, an Associated Press war correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian Women in War Work Official Facts and Figures
Many of Australia's women, when peace comes, will be able to look back with pride be the part they played both in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Security in Pacific After War Close Understanding With New Zealand
Important) achievements of the conference at Canberra between representatives of the Australian and New Zealand Governments…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drowned in the Hunter Soldier's Body Found
The body of Colin Duncombe, aged 29, of Marrickville, was found by police on Monday in 2ft. of water on a sandbar in the Hunter River at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Prisoner Recaptured
MELBOURNE Thurs. — Lieut. Eduardo Simon an Italian prisoner of war, who escaped from Hay NSW, on November 24,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Civil Aviation After the War
CANBERRA Thursday — The inter-departmental committee, which reported to the government on the question of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →1944 Decisive Year of War
NEW YORK Jan. 19—Official Tokio radio stated to-day that while 1944 will be the decisive year of the war, that is not to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Service After the War
Mr. J. P. Abbott, M.H.R., says: "More generous assistance than that which has been given in the past, should be granted to country shires and…
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