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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

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Rail Commissioner Fined Charge Involving [?]Einstatement of Soldier Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 February 1945 · page 6

In the Special Federal Court today the NSW Commissioner for Railway was fined a total of £4 on [?] involving [?]atement rights of…

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Soldier Found Murdered Battered to Death at Balcombe Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 February 1945 · page 4

Lee-Cpl Duke Edward Lloyd, 26, of Toowong, Brisbane, was found murdered at Balcombe camp this morning. He had been battered to death…

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Soldier Preference Members Seek Labor Party Conference MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 February 1945 · page 2

A special Federal conference of the Labor Party is being sought by some members of the organisation to obtain the views of the party as a whole on…

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Patriotic War Effort League

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the Jerilderie Patriotic War Effort League was held on Thursday evening last. Present:—Mr. W. W. Elliott (ch.)…

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Wodonga Water Scheme Outline of Post-War Plans

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 6

An outline of the scheme for water for Wodonga in the post-war period was given to Wodonga Waterworks Trust commissioners yesterday by the trust’s [?] Mr…

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Avoiding Mistakes of Last Post-war Period SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 5

The Minister for Post-War Reconstruction (Mr Dedman) said today that both the Commonwealth and State were determined that only those men who…

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Feeding The Fighting Men Albury Soldier’s Part In Vital Work

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 4

Where fighting is taking place al scattered points right through rugged mountains, along precipitous spurs, and acrors raging torrents, as it is in the…

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Wangaratta Soldier Wounded Attacker Suicides Lismore

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 3

At an inquest here the Coroner, Mr. A. J. Bryant, found that John Victor Lehmann, 63, retired engine driver, of South Lismore, had committed…

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War News

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 2

"The Riverine Grazier" is a subscriber to the Australian Associated Press which provides the overseas news in this issue…

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Post-war Industry

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 2

It is clear from Mr Curtin’s address to manufacturers this week that the Government realises die tremendous responsibility that will have to…

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Austral Pictures "So Proudly We Hail" Story of Nurses at War "Rats of Tobruk" Coming

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 3

Picturegoers are reminded that "So Proudly We Hail," the great drama of the Red Cross Nurses, will be screened at Austral Pictures to-night…

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Latest War News Complete Defeat of Germany "Big Three" Reach Agreement Plans for Lasting Peace London, Thurs.--AAP

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 3

It is officially announced that President Roosevelt, Mr. Churchill and Marshal Stalin, who are meeting at a Black Sea port, have…

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Soldier Preference Legion of Ex-Servicemen Active

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: The Australian Legion of Ex-Service Men and Women, last night, by a majority decision, defeated motions favouring a…

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Hume Seat Mr. Alex. Mair Considering Standing Favors Soldier Member

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 6

Questioned this week as to whether a suggestion that he would be in the field as a candidate for the Hume seat in the next Federal election, the…

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A War Loan Gesture

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 2

Expressions of War Loan consciousness accompanied a vote of £15 to Albury War Loan Committee for expenses at Hume Shire Council meeting…

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Inventors Help War Effort SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 8

It Was announced by the Army Inventions Directorate today that 100 projects proposed by Australian inventors and sponsored by the…

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Tension Increases for Ex- Soldiers Wanted Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 4

Increases in pensions for servicemen men and their dependants will be discussed at a Federal conference of the RSL in Melbourne on February 19…

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Ex-Soldiers And Italian P.O.W. LISMORE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 4

At a meeting of Lismore sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League it was alleged that Italian prisoners of war had beer, seen at the pictures, that…

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Soldier On Serious Charge SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 6

Charged -with a criminal offence against a 20 year old private in the Australian Army Medical Women’s Services, Michael McDermott, aged 25,…

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U.S. Pacific War Air Ace Married New York

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 3

Major Richard Bong, American air ace, who has shot down 40 Japanese planes in the Pacific, was married to Marjorie Ann Vattendahl, a school…

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