Cigarette for Wounded Jap
Pte G. Hull, North Melbourne. at a mobile surgical team’s headquarters at Kumbarum…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murray · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1944
2,172 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 109
War Savings Stamps Campaign
The vigorous non-stop war savings campaign, conducted by War Loans and National Savings Campaign, is certainly bearing fruit. To replace the old style of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?] Oh Eve Of Civil War LONDON, December [?]
[?] radio announced that a [?] [?] throughout France has [?] for New Year’s Eve, [?] must close…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Former Soldier Gaoled Sydney
A man named Siendenkamp’ aged 32, who was stated to have recently completed a sentence of two years imposed by court-martial was sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier For Trial on Bigamy Charge MELBOURNE
At Richmond Police Court to-day Eswin William Hatcher, aged 29. a private in the AMF, was committed for trial on a charge of bigamy,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldier Is Not So Good After All He Is Tough, But He Is Stupid, And He Can’t Bluff Aussies
What kind of a fighter is the Japanese soldier that Australians are meeting m New Guinea today? Is he the magician of the jungle that he was said to be after Malaya, Java, Burma, and his first push through the Owen Stanleys ?…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dried Fish For Soldiers in N.G. Dried Fish For Soldiers in N.G.
Inclusion of dried fish in the diet of Australian servicemen serving in New Guinea and the Islands north of Australia is at present being considered by Army…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Turkey No Afraid of War.” Ankara, Jan. 2
In a New Year message to the nation, the Premier (Mr Sarajogln) declared. Turks In 1944 must centre their thoughts on the policy of calling on Turkey to fight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stalin And The Pacific War New York, Jan 2
The New York “Times” Washington correspondents points out that the “Army and Navy Journal’s” use of the phrase “all the leaders agreed that the United States…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Daylight Raids War Factories in Paris Blasted LONDON, January 2
German war factories in Paris were targets for American heavy bombers which swarmed over France yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Film of the New Guinea Was (From the Official War Correspondent, Kenneth Slessor, at Australian Headquarters in New Guinea)
The first Australian documentary film made in the front-line and showing daily experiences of the fighting soldiers is now in the final stages of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier Charged With Wounding MELBOURNE
Francis Edward Mullenger, aged 27, soldier, was charged in the City Court today with having at Alphington, on December 31, inflicted grievous bodily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“D.D.T.” is New Friend of the Soldier WASHINGTON, January 2
Army medical scientists have developed a powerful chemical weapon against body lice, known as “DDT, which has proved highly effective in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed in Action Pte. Harry W. Smith
On Friday evening L.-Cpl. Harry J. Smith, of the 16th Garrison Battalion, and Mrs. Smith, of West Hay, received a telegraphic message to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wounded In Action
Word has teen received by his parents that PRIVATE H. R. HALL, A.I.F., better known as Bill, has been wounded in action in New Guinea. He is the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R.S.S.A.I.L.A. Welcome Home to Diggers
On Friday evening a welcome home function was staged by the R.S.S.A.I.L.A. to welcome a number of local boys home on leave from combat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Progress of the War Intensive Air War Fourteen Thousand Tons or Bombs on Berlin
Blasted by 2000 tons of bombs on Wednesday night, Berlin was given a short respite on Thursday, but on Saturday the R.A.F. Lancasters in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“War Nearing Hungarian Frontier” LONDON, January 3
Hungarian radio broadcast a statement by the chief of the Hungarian General Staff (General Szombathely), in which he declared:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →First Brazilians For Air War New York, January 3
The first contingent of Brazilian airmen has left to take part in the air war overseas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messages from Prisoners of War Several Hay Boys Mentioned
Mrs. J. Griffiths, of Lachlan Street, Hay, has received the following telegraphic message from Mr. C. Odewahn, Kurrajong Avenue, Leeton:…
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