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The wars & local soldiers, 1943

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“Holding War Not Our Strategy” Auckland (N.z.)

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 April 1943 · page 3

The New Zealand Minister to Washington (Mr Nash) has returned home. He declared that merely to hold what we have in tile Pacific and to…

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Hay and District Patriotic and War Fund Sports Committee

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 April 1943 · page 2

Arrangements for the Easter sports were advanced a step further on Thursday evening at a meeting of the above committee at the Council…

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Progress of the War Flying Fortresses Strike Again Japanese Fleet Smashed at Kavieng

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 April 1943 · page 2

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Monday.— Flying Fortresses and Liberators on Thursday evening attacked a convoy of enemy ships…

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Latest War News Big German Attack Expected Russians Warned to Prepare May Be Attack on Moscow London, April 5

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 April 1943 · page 3

Although the Russian battlefront has quientened down at present, the Germans are stated to be rushing up huge numbers of freshly…

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Young Soldier Killed Motor Cycle Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 April 1943 · page 1

A message was received on Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Stratton, Cressy street, announcing that their son, Corporal Kevin Stratton, had…

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War Bonds Are Negotiable

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1943 · page 4

There is a generally-[?] wrong view on the [?] small investors in Australia that putting money into Government…

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Nazis Pushing Bulgaria Into War London, April 6

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 April 1943 · page 1

Military preparations in Bulgaria at present are greater than since April of 1941. according to the Istanbul correspondent of the "Daily Express," who says that since…

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More Canadian Soldiers Reach England. London, April 6

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 April 1943 · page 2

Reinforcements for the Canadian Women's Army Corps have arrived safely in Britain. They include women trained in clerical, signalling and mechanical duties…

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Soldier Printer for the Senate Reprinted from Wagga “Advertiser”

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1943 · page 3

Mr Frank Beech, who [?] been a linotype operator on the staff of the “Lachlander” newspaper, Condobolin, for the last 21 years, has been…

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Anzac Day at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 April 1943 · page 2

At a meeting of the Anzac Day committee last night, limes fixed for Anzac Day services on April 25, were as follows : United services ceremony at…

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Our War Effort

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 8 April 1943 · page 2

It is estimated that 18,000 tons of coal production was lost on Thursday as a result of stoppages involving 5000 men on New South Wales…

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Soldier Gaoled for Bigamy Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 April 1943 · page 2

The story of how Clifton James Harvey, aged 31. following a conversation with a girl on n Sydney ferry boat, subsequently married her. but lived with her only two…

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“Soldier With Mind of a Boy” MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 April 1943 · page 3

At a court-martial today, Pte John Johnson, aged 21. admitted that his reading was restricted to comic papers, the words in other papers being too long for him. He…

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Residential Club for Ex-soldiers. Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 April 1943 · page 4

A returned soldiers’ residential club will be established in Sydney by the NSW branch of the RSL as a memorial to the men and women of the Australian fighting…

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Gaoled for Stealing From Soldiers Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 April 1943 · page 4

Pleading guilty at Ryde police court today to six charges of having stolen articles from soldiers’ kit bags, Sydney George Millard, aged 23, railway…

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Former Italian Soldier Gaoled Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 April 1943 · page 4

An enemy alien. Francesco Vigilante, aged 31, of Lidcombe, who had served with the Italian army in Abyssinia. was sentenced to a month’s hard…

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Anzac Day Service

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 April 1943 · page 4

Returned men and women will remember their comrades of other days when they march to the Memorial Gates at Waring Gardens on Anzac…

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No Extra Holiday on Anzac Day

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 April 1943 · page 2

A statement in the “Country Traders Review” concerning the Easter and Anzac Day holiday was brought under the notice of the Albury Chamber…

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War Loan Rally Next

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 April 1943 · page 2

You must protect your savings. You must see that what you have earned by hard work for years past is not stolen from you…

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Redlands War Effort League Monthly Meeting

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 April 1943 · page 4

At the monthly meeting of the above, which was held on Saturday night last, it was decided to hold a further function for the raising of…

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