Reserve of War Pilots 373 From Civil Aviation
Civil aviation provided a reserve for the R.A.A.F. of 373 highly-trained pilots, capable of making long-distance flights…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New England · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1939
1,160 stories in New England's papers · page 17 of 58
"War" Ends Australia Defeats Madagocia Darwin
When the six-inch guns of Darwin coast defences scored eight direct hits at a range of four miles and theoretically sank two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →URALLA Returned Soldiers Presentation to Mr. A. Cox Splendid Work For Branch
A a meeting of Uralla branch of the Returned Soldiers' League on Wednesday night reference Mas made to the valuable work…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Diggers' Diary Horses of War Time
It is estimated that 958,000 horses' and mules wore killed in the Great. War. Of the British hordes, 51,308 were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Time For Hard Soldiers Has Come" VIENNA
The Nazi Commissioner (Herr Buerckel) in a speech declared that Herr Hitler had proclaimed peace with guns…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain's Soldier Sons New Armies Are Being Put Into Uniforms
July 1, the date when the first of Britain's 200,000 militiamen are to be called up for Army service, will mark a milestone in British industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japan Continues Hostile In Tientsin Men and Women Manhandled Food Supply Position Slogans Against British "Declaration of War" : Talk of Trade Reprisals LONDON
The fifth day of the blockade of the British Concession at Tientsin passed off quietly. With a temperature at 196 the Americans went swimming at a nearby…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Amounts to Declaration of War" Admiral Views Blockade Three Britons, One a Girl, Manhandled Only Two More Days Food in Concession Japan's Militarists Need Cheap Victory, Says Chinese Delegate LONDON
To-day, which was the fifth day of the blockade of the British Concession at Tientsin, passed off quietly. With the temperature at 106 degrees, Americans went swimming at the nearby country club…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Food Subsidy for British Farmers Improved Productivity Plan Outlined Payment of £2 ACRE
"Under the British Government's plan for ensuring food supplies in time of war the function allotted to the Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →McCaughey Trust Education of Soldiers' Children
The chairman of the A.I.F. section of the Sir Samuel McCaughey Trust, Brigadier-General J. P. McGlinn, of Melbourne, states that since the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cape York Tribes at War
A report from Normanton says that tribal fighting has broken out among the aborigines on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula, near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bowser War Ends But Who Won?
The vexed question of whether kerbside bowsers should be permitted to remain at Young was settled at last meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Britain's Soldier Sons How the New Armies are being Put into Uniform
July 1st, the date when the first of Britain's 200,000 militiamen are to be called up for Army service, will mark a milestone in British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wounded with Pellets Allegation To Police Man Charged With Attempted Murder SYDNEY
Frederick Henry Ronayne (26) employee at a dairy at Glenlee, five miles from Campbelltown, complained to the police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returned Soldiers' League
At a special meeting this week the Guyra branch of the Returned Soldiers' League appointed Mr. A. Cox secretary in place of Mr. W. Cahill,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bullet in Chest Goulburn Resident Wounded GOULBURN
Aubrey McShane walked out of his office in Goulburn yesterday with a bullet wound in the chest. He drove his car home and then…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Diggers' Diary War Veterans' Homes, Victoria
Unostentatiously, quietly and effectively, much work is being cone on behalf of returned soldiers and their dependants by real friends who seek…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →United States Could Prevent War PARIS, [?]
Foreign Minister Bonnet in a speech declared. "If the United States had made it known that it would be on our side at the start…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missing Man Darwin Soldier Lost DARWIN, [?]
A hundred men of the mobile force are searching the bush 40 miles from Darwin for a gunner of their unit K. E. Harris…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Preference to Returned Soldier
The Returned Soldiers' Employment Board took action against the Coonabarabran District Hospital on charges of having failed to give preference to…
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