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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

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Charges Dismissed Soldier Wrote the Super Then Conducted Own Case

Macleay Argus · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 8

Conducting his own defence in a very capable manner, John Green, a sergeant in the Australian Military Forces, successfully…

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Welcome Home MR. & Mrs. Dallas Templeton Honoured

The Northern Champion · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 2

Never did "Dalkeith," Oxley Island, exhibit such charm and gaiety when recently fifty residents of the Island gathered to welcome home one of its…

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The War

The Northern Champion · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 2
Also in The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate

Washington (AAP): The Navy Department announced that American submarines have sunk twenty-four additional enemy vessels in the Pacific and…

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War News. London

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 6

Latest reports from Moscow suggest that the Gorman defence of Poland has collapsed completely. There is alarm and gloom in…

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Wingham and District War Memorial Hospital. Deputation to Interview Commission

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 2

A meeting of the committee of the above was held in the supper room. Memorial Town Hall, Wingham, on Monday night, 15th January, 1945…

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Assets About £4,000. Annual Meeting of Returned Soldiers. Concern About Repatriation

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 3

At the annual meeting of Taree sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen's Imperial League on Tuesday night, Mr. W. A. Bryan…

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War News in Brief

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 3

There is a possibility that" the Allied columns converging on Mandalay may soon not only capture this important communications centre,…

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Highlights of the War News

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 3

London: Flame-throwers, which melt snow drifts into pools of steaming water, are being used as spearheads of…

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War Summary. Russians Deep Into the Reich. Swift Advance On 400-Mile Front

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 3

The speed and fury oi the great Russian drive across Poland into Germany the greatest offensive in history-shows no signs of…

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News Of Our Soldiers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 2

Sergeant and Mrs. F. N. Clancy, of Wingham Police Station, have their son Gordon home on leave from an Air Force station in Queensland…

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Rector's Social Welcome Home to Church's Ex-servicemen

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 1

The Hector (the Rev. W. Griffith Cochrane) and Parochial Council at their last meeting decided to give a welcome home to all discharged Church of…

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War News. Calcutta

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 2

Troops of the Indian 15th Corps have landed on Ramee Island, off the western coast of Burma, 6[?] miles south of Akyab…

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The War Russians Enter Reich

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 2

London; Monday (AAP): Red Army troops under Marshal Koniev yesterday swept into Silesia to a depth of 20 miles on a 53 mile front, and are…

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They Keep to Rules. Italian Prisoners of War

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 3

Impossibility of substantiating complaints that Italian prisoners of war employed at a district locality had misbehaved themselves was…

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War News in Brief

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 26 January 1945 · page 3

With the capture, announced in Wednesdays communique, of Yonbingan (15 miles north-west of Sagaing), troops of the 14th Army are…

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The Post-war World

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 26 January 1945 · page 3

When the war is done the drive for tanks must become a drive for houses. The drive for food to prevent the enemy from starving us…

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Highlights of the War

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 26 January 1945 · page 2

London: All war correspondents on the Italian front are discussing the possibility of Marshal Kesselring…

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Wingham and District War Memorial Hospital

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 26 January 1945 · page 2

The Mayor (Alderman H. W. Rouse) presided at a public meeting in connection with the above, held in the supper room of the Memorial Town…

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War Summary. Russians Storm Oder Towns. East Prussia Now Doomed

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 26 January 1945 · page 3

In another day of spectacular advances the Red Army on Tuesday reached the River Oder in Silesia along a 50-mile front, practically…

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