Soldier Found Shot Dead on Roof of Flat SYDNEY
Harry Broad, age 24, a member of the A.I.F., was found dead on the roof of a block of flats in Coogee this morning. A bullet wound was in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murray · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1940
3,171 stories in Murray's papers · page 14 of 159
Albury Returned Soldiers and the Preference Act
The decision of Marrickville and Albury Municipal Councils to press for an amendment of the Returned Soldiers Preference Act will be brought…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Volunteer Italian Airmen Helping the Finns Russians Losing Heavily on the Land and in the Air M. Stalin to Visit the Front 34,000 Soviet Soldiers Starving Another Big Offensive Collapses HELSINKI, January 25
It has been disclosed that no fewer than 20 Italian volunteer airmen participated in the bombing of Kronstadt and two Soviet bases in Estonia early this week. The Italians are highly trained and flew the newly-arrived modern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier in a Critical Condition Sydney
Suffering from a bayonet wound Private Donald Campbell, aged 28, the A.I.F., is in the Prince of Wale Hospital in a critical condition. East…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.S.W. Prisoners Wish to Enlist Sydney
With the object of enlisting with the A.I.F., several prisoners in N.S.W. gaols applied for their release; but it is unlikely that the Government will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Drowned at Puckapunyal Melbourne
Finding that Private Charles Harry Dusting, aged 19, had been accidentally drowned in the military swimming pool at Puckapunyal on January…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wodonga Soldiers to be Farewelled on Saturday Evening
Permission has been obtained by a farewell committee at Wodonga for men in Puckapunyal military camp who enlisted from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young Nazi Officers Forget War Temporarily
The everlasting study of matters military is interrupted at Potsdam military college by the arrival of young women to share dancing lessons. The youthful Nazi generals-to-be, bow to their partners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War, Day by Day British Fighter Types
Royal Air Force fighter defence consists of Sepermarine Spitfires, Hawker Hurricanes and Gloster Gladiators…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Royal Womenfolk Playing Their Part in the War
THE QUEEN, wearing the uniform [?] the St. John Ambulance, one of [?] 10 uniforms which she is entitled [?] wear…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Away with Wishful Thinking Increase, Not Relaxation Bigger War Effort Urged (British Official Wireless) LONDON, January 25
Captain Harold Balfour, Under-Secretary for Air, addressing his constituents, said that it was dangerous to allow wishful thinking,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Items of News No Special Leave [?] Albury Soldiers [?]
It was ascertained at the Town Hall yesterday that application had been made to the officers commending the various military camps to allow…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier, Who Died, Lurched Against Bayonet Belief of the Police Sydney
Detectives are satisfied that Private Donald Kirk Campbell, aged 28, of the [?] received the bayonet wound from received he died last night as the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stop the War Motion Defeat in South Africa Capetown, Jan. 27
The Assembly sat all night daring the debate on General Hertsog’s “stop the war” motion, which was defeated by 81 votes to 59…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Economic Headaches Will Follow End of War Banister’s Warning Sydney
“It would be nationally criminal for Government to await with [?] and [?] the economic [?] that post-war [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →“War-time Authority May Be Retained in Time of Peace” Canberra
Post-war retention by the State of much of its special war-time authority was probable because the community would prefer security to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“War Over This Year” Belief Spreads in Germany Rumor of Secret Weapons London, Jan. 26
There is a rumor dying through Germany that the war will be over in six or eight months. The rumor undoubtedly bears the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →People Perplexed About the War “Propaganda and Lies” British Opinion Divided, Declares Sydney Journalist Canberra
The modern development of propaganda had caused disillusionment among thinking people, said Mr. Britain Penton, news editor of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Conscription of Labor Mr. Stevens’ Masterful Analysis Big Problems of the War Believes Radical Changes Are Necessary CANBERRA
The adoption of a long-range, national plan within the framework of the Australian democratic system was urged to-night by a former Premier of N.S.W. (Mr. B. S. B. Stevens)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers Honored Wodonga Presentations Shire President’s Tribute
A magnificent tribute to Wodonga and district men who have joined the Second A.I.F. was paid by a large gathering in Wodonga Shire Hall on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →