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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1945

495 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 1 of 25

Soldier Settlement Ballot for Ooma Land

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 1

Attention of returned soldiers of 1914-18 and the present war is directed to an advertisement in this issue concerning land available for ballot…

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Roll of Honor Pte. E. A. Tindall Killed in Action

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 1

The sad news was received on Boxing Day by Mr. W. J. Tindall, West wyalong, that his elder son, Private Edward A. Tindall, 2/4…

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War Facts in Brief

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 1
Also in Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder

The world's two largest liners, the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth, transported a total of 320,000 United States troops to…

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War News. LOCAL & General. London

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 3

In the face of a German counter offensive in the Saar Valley the American Seventh Army has withdrawn from a narrow twenty miles…

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Good News From Prisoners of War at Osaka

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 3

Mesdames H. and J. Fanning received letters from their husbands on Friday from Osaka (Japan) camp. They state that P…

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V.A.D. Prisoner of War Effort Approximately £120 Cleared

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 6

The members of the Condobolin Voluntary Aid Detachment conducted a Street Stall and Collection on Saturday, 23rd December,…

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Ooma Soldier Settlement

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 1

Applications for consideration at ballot for land available at Ooma Soldier Settlement, an area of 840 acres, must be lodged from February 5 to February…

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War Facts in Brief

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 4

Ball bearings, one of the most difficult products of precision manufacture in the whole range of engineering science, are now being…

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War News New York

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 2

Americans landed on Luzon, main island of the Philippines on which the capital of the main island is situated, Tokyo Radio stated…

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American Comment On Australian Drought Effect on Pacific War WASHINGTON

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 1

The Washington "Star," in an editorial commenting on the Australian drought, says the effects of this catastrophic drought upon the…

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War Facts in Brief

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 4

The Australian Government has undertaken to provide by June, 1945, facilities, supplies and services for the British Fleet to cost a minimum…

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Wyalong Receptions War Savings Certificates Suggested

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 1

At the monthly meeting of the W. Wyalong and District Patriotic Fund held on Monday night a balance sheet was received from the…

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Soldiers Are Now Cricketers

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 1

In their first match since the formation of the Club, Mallee Plains defeated a combined eleven representing West Wyalong Junior Shop…

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Back Just Twenty-nine Years Condo. Aussies in the Great War No. One Eighteen Brave Volunteers, Photographed in Cairo in January of 1916

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 1

Top row, reading from left to right: Bi 1 Fitzgibbons, Jack Pengilly, Gordon Edgar, Arthur McKenzie, Peter Moore, Jack Moore, W. Akers, Alex Munro. Second row, sit[?]ing: Fred. Newman, Cecil Wheatley. Os. Crowley, T. B. Watson, Jack Williams, Gus Leifermann. Front row, sitting: Hector Brewer, Norman Leifermann, --. Gondie (Shire Engineer) Andy Munro. Across the feet of Norman Leifermann is a copy of the Lachlander, the old district paper that was regularly received by many of the "Boys" and read with intense interest. Those known to be killed out of the…

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QUANDIALLA Send-Off to Soldier Personal Items QUANDIALLA, Wed

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 3

Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Penfold and son, Ross, departed on Friday to spend a holiday in the metropolis. On Friday, Miss E. Sellen and Miss…

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War Facts in Brief

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 3

The Australian Government has undertaken to provide by June, 1945, facilities, supplies and services for the British Fleet estimated to cost…

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AFTER 20 YEARS World War Brothers May Meet

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 1

After the last wartwo brothers, who fought with the AIF, said good-bye and set out on their respective paths. More than twenty years have passed…

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Latest War Flashes London

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 1

American troops on Luzon island, in the Philippines, have crossed the river Agno, and have broadened their bridgehead to 45 miles…

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War Facts in Brief

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 2

Two men iu every three between 18 and 40 years have served in Australia's full time defence forces ut some stage during the present…

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