Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← The wars & local soldiers, all years

New England · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1941

2,362 stories in New England's papers · page 6 of 119

OVER £140 Glencoe Helps War Funds Village's Creditable Record

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 2

Through the medium of the Glencoe Patriotic Fund Committee Glencoe has established a very creditable record in the patriotic…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Rains Will Help War Effort Effect on Stock Prices

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 6

The value of the New Year rains can be assessed at millions of pounds to the pastoral and dairying industries apart from…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Women of Britain Give up Silk Stockings To Aid War Industry

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 8

The women of Britain are going without new silk stockings this winter to supply the increasing demand from overseas for British…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

State's Part In War Effort Railway Co-operation Forging Weapons to Smash Foe

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 6

The Deputy Premier and Leader of the Country Party, Colonel Bruxner, said recently that the basis of the Government's policy…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Casualty List 28 Killed in Action MELBOURNE

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 1

Casualty lists issued to-day contain the names of 28 soldiers killed in action --24 in Victoria and four in N.S.W. Two other Victorians have died of…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

New War Machines Who Invented Them?

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 8

There has been a long-standing argument as to who Invented the tanks. The truth of the matter is that nobody did. The ancestry of the…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

War Aims Churchill Explains LONDON

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 1

A further request for a statement of Britain's war aims was made to Prime Minister Churchill when the House of Commons…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Spending in War-time Adjusting Private Budgets

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 3

The effectiveness of a nation's war effort depends just as much on the skill of its financial and economic leaders and those who do their…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Horrors of War ; the Gr[?]ness of Horoism

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 4

The people of Inverell have had brought night home to them by recent events the awful horrors of war, and at the same time a great cause for pride that their race can bring forth such nobleminded young men who are ready and willing to obliterate their…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

"Right-minded People Know War Aims" Churchill (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 1

A further request for a statement of war aims was made to the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) when the House of Commons…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Red Cross Society Darwin Epidemic Stores For Soldiers

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 3

During the recent meningitis epidemic in Darwin, the Australian Red Cross Society was aide to supply everything required in the hospital…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Work for Returning Soldiers Machinery Ready Within Few Days MELBOURNE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 1

Within the next few days, branch officers of the Repatriation Commission in various States will be ready to undertake the work of placing in…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Soldier Entertained

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 8

Private Walker, of Yooroonah, was entertained at a social in Wollomombi Oddfellows' Hall last Friday night. Cr. B. Browning presided…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Stop Press N.Z. Soldiers Stationed at Fiji Wellington (N.z.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 4

It was announced to-day that a detachment of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force is now stationed at Fiji…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Hillgrove Soldier Entertained

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 8

Corporal J. F. Martin, of Hillgrove, was entertained at a social in Hillgrove School of Arts Hall last Saturday night. A large crowd attended…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Wounded by a Stray Bullet

The Uralla Times · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 4

In a letter borne, Meat. Swinton, son of Mr and Mrs E. A. Swinton, of Greylands, Uralla, mentioned that a bullet went…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Enjoying the Fun Until Wounded

The Uralla Times · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 4

In a letter to Miss Alma Wallace, Lieut. dive Baylis, who was reported wounded at Bardia, wrote that he was enjoying the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Polish War Victims' Appeal

Guyra Argus · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 5

The following new garments were brought to the C.W.A. meeting for above fund:—2 Balaclavas, Lady's Tailored Skirt, Man's Flannelette Shirt,…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The War To-day's Latest News London, Thursday. Tobruk Is Ours!

The Uralla Times · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 1

Although a General Headquarters' announcement has not. yet reached London, the B.B.C. announced that Tobruk had…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Practice Blitzkrieg Where R.A.A.F. Men Learn Arts Of War

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 6

Air war rages sveen days a week, over 600 square miles of land on the far-northern New South Wales coastline…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →