How Henty Can Help the War Effort Local Organisations Need Your Support in Various Activities
The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 1
IN HENTY, AS IN EVERY OTHER CENTRE, THERE ARE NUMBERS OF MEN—YOUNG, MIDDLE-AGED AND OLD—WHO, BECAUSE THEY ARE IN RESERVED OCCUPATIONS, UNFIT, INFIRM OF TOO OLD, ARE NOT IN THE FIGHTING FORCES…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →W.V.S. Comforts Fund Letters of Appreciation and Xmas Greetings from Henty Soldiers
The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 6
"I CAN TELL YOU THAT I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO THE KIND AND THOUGHTFUL WOMEN OF THE W.V.S. THE BOYS IN MY TENT SAID THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE GONE TO HENTY TO ENLIST." Thus Private K. J. McNamara, who is in the Middle East with the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Moratorium For Soldiers MELBOURNE
Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 1
Men called up for military service will receive protection from a moratorium which is already in operation. Army officers said to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returned Soldiers Albury Sub-branch; Annual Meeting
Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 5
Annual meeting of the Albury Sub-branch R.S.S. & A.I.I.A. was held in the Wool Exchange [?]ing last night, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Old Soldiers All
Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 2
Members of the Albury sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers League [?] something of a shock when they entered the festive hall for the annual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Direct Street Traffic
The Pastoral Times · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 4
Soldiers in uniform directed traffic at city intersections in Sydney on Tuesday. Army authorities said the objective was to give troops such…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Letters From Soldiers
The Pastoral Times · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 4
The Editor of the "Pastoral Times” be pleased to publish extracts from soldiers letters received by local relatives and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →American Wounded Reach Australia Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 2
A hospital ship carrying more than 200 wounded American soldiers ir[?] the Philippines arrived at Darwin a couple of days ago bound for a southern por[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Strategy Decisions Affect Australi[?]. Canberra
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 4
Decisions of importance, involvi[?] war strategy in Australian and N[?] Zealand sectors of the Pacific, ha[?] been reached by the Allied defen[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Use of Prisoners of War Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 2
The Premier (Mr, Dunstan) to-day [?] h[?] that the Commonwealth would view sympathetically the [?] to release internear and prisoners of war to meet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Leaders Meet in N.e.i
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 2
Commanders of the Allied forces in die South-Wesl Pacific met in the Netherlands East Indies recently. Photographs show their arrival at a Dutch air base. Top : Sir Archibald Wav[?]ll and Sir Charles Burnett, Chief of the Australian Air Force. Below : Left to Right—Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffry Layton. British Naval Chief[?] Vice-Admiral C.E.L…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Lang and the War Effort. Canberra
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 6
The view in Federal circles is that there is plenty of scope for the former N. S. W. Premier (Mr. Lang) to assist the war effort in his own State. A country branch…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldier's Letter
Riverina Recorder · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 2
The following letter has been received from Pbe. J. B. (Sandy) Purtid—"Dear Sir,—Through your valuable columns will you allow me to express…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Slippers for Soldiers
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 2
North Albury Red Cross is still appealing for materials from which to make slippers for soldiers in hospital, and the magnificent work done by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Leaders in Dutch East Indies
Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 January 1942 · page 4
Commanders of the Allied forces met recently in the Dutch east Indies: Left to right—consul general H. F. C. Walsh: Sir Archibald Wavell. Commander in-Chief of the Allied forces in south-West Pacific; Lieut General H. ler Poorlen. Commander-in-Chief of the N.E.I. army…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Polish War Orphans for India. Teheran
Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 January 1942 · page 2
India has invited [?] Polish orphans between the ages of 4 and and 12 years, lo stay in India during the war. The children are being selected from 300,000 now living in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Axis War Slogan New York, January 17
Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 January 1942 · page 1
The Berne correspondent of the New York “Times” says that Axis propaganda experts, trying to find a slogan to outweigh the V for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Labor Shortage Use of War Prisoners. Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 January 1942 · page 5
The Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) will press Cabinet for an early [?] on the question of the employment of internees and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →India’s Problems War Dictator Suggested New Delhi, January 18
Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 January 1942 · page 2
Sir Victor Sassoon, interviewed at Bombay, made a new suggestion for the temporary settlement of the Indian trouble. He said the Secretary of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Prisoners Not to be Worked in N.sw. Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 January 1942 · page 4
The Slate Government docs not intend to use war prisoners or internees as labor battalions to ease the manpower shortage in N.S.W…
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