Soldier's Fatal Motor Cycle Ride. Melbourne
At the Inquest to-day on Corporal John Straiten Grose, 2nd Cavalry Division, police evidence was tendered to the Coroner that while riding his motor-cycle in Church…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murray · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1942
2,843 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 143
Letters From Soldiers
The Editor of the "Pastoral Times" will be pleased to publish extracts from soldiers' letters received by local relatives and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Enthusiastic War Workers
Enthused by the example of the Technical School students, who have collected half a ton of aluminium, a number of men attended a meeting in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Critics Interesting Commons Debate LONDON, January 9
Recent Australian [?] [?] her share in the forming of the war [?] and the question of [?] formation of an Imperial War…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Industrial War Effort Further Steps to Intensify Melbourne
Far-reaching steps to intensify Australia’s industrial war effort were an-[?] to-day by the Minister for War Organisation of. Industry (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →God and the War
We face the New Year with our confidence chastened. We realise how tough is the Job on hand. Of the skill and courage job our enemies…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Industries for India. New Delhi. Jan. 10
The Indian Purchasing Commission in the United Stales has placed Lease Lend orders for nearly £7.000,000, mainly for plant and tools enabling India to develop her own…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“War Entered Most Dangerous Phase.” Cape Town, Jan 10
“The war has entered the last and [?] most dangerous phase,” declared [?] Marshal Smuts. in the course of a [?] to-day. “Germany has mobilised her [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fire Near Bonegilla 500 Soldiers Fight Flames
Last Wednesday afternoon a fire broke on Cr. Mullins’ property, about six miles from Wodonga and not far from Bonegilla camp. The country…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RECORD A.I.F. Enlistment Big Reserve Ready for Overseas. Melbourne
A big reserve of A.I.F., numbering many thousands of men, is available for service overseas at any time it mighty be necessary to embark them…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Progress of the War
Features of the war during the past few days have been the continued advance of the Japanese forces, which are being greatly reinforced, in Malaya. The enemy claims the fall of Kuala Lumpur, but the British communique is silent in respect…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News in Brief
Speaking in the House of Lords, Lord Moyne said that reports of the failure to destroy essential equipment of value to the enemy on Penang…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aluminium Collection for War Effort
The acting Mayor (Cr. J. F. Dundas), Mr. R. F. Ellis (principal) and some members of the staff and students of the Wangaratta Technical School, with the 8 cwt. of aluminium which they collected for the war effort…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Earlier War News London
The cruiser Galatea (5220 tons, six 6—inch guns) was lost off Egypt on the night of December 15, it was revealed to-day. "She went down in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Hardly Felt Here MELBOURNE
Australia had cause to congratulate itself that on the whole its economy had experienced relatively little adverse reactions to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Is Proving Worth Of Wool
The war on the Russian front is providing wool with the best advertisement it has ever received. The appeals throughout Grmany for warm apparel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Victims’ Pensions Regulations Now in Force
National Security Regulations have been gazetted to give effect to the Commonwealth Government’s compensation proposals for civilians killed or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Daysdale War Auxlliary Letters From Daysdale Diggers
The hon. secretary of the D.W.A has received the following letters: From VX 42198, Dvr. J. E. Farrelly, 2nd A.A. Regt., Sect. A.A.S.C., A.L.F.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Politicians Discuss War in Pacific Melbourne
The War Council to-day, spent five hours making a detailed examination of plans for the execution of new strategy in the Pacific. It had before it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charcoal Shortage War Prisoners As Burners ? MELBOURNE
To solve one of Australia’s most serious substitute fuel problems, it Is expected that soon a decision will be reached, whereby prisoners of war will toe employed as…
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