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Murray · The wars & local soldiers
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The Minister for the Army (Mr Forde) announced today that the names of 500 Australian officers who are held by the Japanese as prisoners of war In Malaya…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Thursday.—Japanese shipping concentrated in Rabaul harbour suffered its heaviest blow yesterday when two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eighth Army patrols have pressed on from Buerat and are now actively testing Rommell's defence positions covering the approach…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Men of the Ninth Division, who went into action at El Alamein. and were wounded. have arrived home after long service in the Middle East. They tell vivid stories…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Sydney firm has made available a gift of £3000 for Immediate distribution among returned soldiers and their dependants. This will be administered by the RSL. It…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stanley Gordon Hales, aged 43 years, soldier, was acquitted yesterday at Wagga Police Court on charges of stealing 43 bottles of sauce, 98 bottles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Keith Steele, also known as Charles Rostock McGee, aged 21 years, soldier, was charged at the Wagga Police Court yesterday with embezzling £22 10/,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On New Year’s Eve, according to evidence in Wodonga court yesterday, several parcels of Manchester were taken from a car parked in front of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a quiet suburban station in a capital city "somewhere In Australia." a party of Australian wounded soldiers from the New Guinea…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eight hundred workers at four Sydney war factories decided today to resume work on Monday. They had been idle for several weeks on a demand that full…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A post-war plan of reconstruction fro Britain envisages high-speed motor ways by-passing all we big towns-It is suggested that the roads should…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Men of the US Army exchange cigarettes with French North African civilians after the landing of the Allied Expeditionary Force…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It's a long cry from writing psychological "mood music" for Gaylord Carter and Hal Curtis in Hollywood lo writing war poems in the jungles of Papua. But 22-year-old Sergeant Francis P. O'Connell, who has done both, is probably the only American soldier in New Guinea's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Immediate calling of a Dominion conference to discuss post-war wool marketing is being considered by the Minister for Commerce (Mr Scully). Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“The war in the Pacific Is approaching showdown.” says the journal, “American,” in an editorial. “The Chinese military mission, after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a general review of the war at a Press conference today, the U.S. Secretary for War (Mr S[?]msonl said the Papuan campaign was almost complete, while…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary, today referred to Britain’s colonial administration. He said th[?]s without the British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sentences ranging from 60 to 120 [?]ys’ detention have been imposed by District Court-Mart[?] on four [?]ldiers [?]d guilty of de[?]ertion or absence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The battle or [?]uon Gulf is over. What is left of the enemy convoy is well clear of the area and probably back in Rabaul, leaving at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The first party of A.I.F. men wounded during the rout of Rommel’s Army in Egypt to return has arrived in Australia in a hospital ship…
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