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The wars & local soldiers, 1944

1,401 stories in New England's papers · page 13 of 71

Soldier’s Divorce Petition Son Spilt the Beans

The Inverell Times · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 4

It is possible to let the cat out of the bag in many ways and classical phrases such as “in wine, the truth” and “out of the mouths of…

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Took Direct Action Soldier and Correspondent Unexpected Home Coming

The Inverell Times · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 4

How a soldier, arriving home unexpectedly on leave and finding another man in compromising circumstances with the soldier’s…

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Detective Stabbed by Allied Soldier

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Detective W. A. N. Murray, a former (Melbourne footballer, was stabbed three times early…

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Prisoners of War

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 4

Warrant Officer I. H. Sabey, one of the recently returned prisoners of war from Germany in a series of articles describes the various Stalags…

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The British People at War

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 2

The world has often marvelled, sometimes with admiration, at others with annoyance, at the quality or qualities that have enabled the…

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Prisoners of War Farm Labour

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 3

We ("Inverell Times") are advised by the National Service Officer that Inverell has been approved as a prisoner of war control centre and…

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Pacific War Japanese Losses Fleet Avoids Battle WASHINGTON

The Inverell Times · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 1

In their recent battering attack on the Japanese bastion of Truk United States task forces sank twenty-three ships, probably sank…

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Soldier Settlement

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 3

The Classification Committee under the War Service Land Settlement Act will sit at Moree on March 8th & 9th, for the purpose of interviewing…

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Anzac Day Arrangements

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 2

Anzac Day, Tuesday April 25, will be a close holiday. Hotels and wine saloons will be closed. There will be no horseracing or…

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Returned Men of the 2nd. A.I.F. R.S.L. Membership Fee

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 2

The President (Mr. B. S. Marsh) presided at the monthly meeting of the R.S.S.A.I.L. Glen Innes Sub-branch, and there…

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"Rests on Two Fundamentals" Economic Prosperity After the War

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 1

The United States of America would never accept Socialism because the people were too individualistic…

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Glen Innes Soldier's Death in Prison Camp

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 2

Gnr. Robert Jack Key, whose death from illness in a Japanese prison camp in Thailand on July 10. 1943. was reported in a…

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POST-WAR Plans for Peace

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 1 March 1944 · page 1

War Cabinet has authorised liberal allowances and three types of training-full-time university, full-time technical, part-time in either—to…

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R.a.f Smashing Nazi War Factories

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 1 March 1944 · page 3

—One by one the great industrial centres of Nazi Germany are being systematically smashed by the combined efforts of the R.A.F. and American Air Force. By night great formations of bombers leave Britain giving…

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Red Cross Notes Prisoners of War Collections

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 1 March 1944 · page 5

Mrs. Hockley (Rusden-st. West) £2/2/6, Mrs. W. Johnstone (Dangar) £7, Mrs. C. Haydon (Dangar) £1/3/, Mrs. Robb (Barney) £1/5/6, Miss…

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Quirindi A.w.u. Rejects Prisoner of War Labour

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 1 March 1944 · page 10

A large attendance at the monthly meeting of Quirindi A.W.U. Committee discussed the announcement of the establishment of a P.O.W…

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226,853 War Pensioners

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1944 · page 1

On June 30, 1943, the end of the last financial year, there were 226,853 war pensioners (ex-soldiers and their dependents) in…

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Wool Review Post-war Prospects

The Uralla Times · Thursday 2 March 1944 · page 2

Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd. Sydney, provide the following interesting review of wool in its poet-war aspects:—…

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Preference to Soldiers

The Uralla Times · Thursday 2 March 1944 · page 1

The ACTU Interstate Conference, sitting in Melbourne, has adopted a motion that, in view of the all-em-bracing war services, preference…

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Eight Soldiers Adopted by Bald Nob Wood Shed Dance Helps the Cause

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1944 · page 6

A most enjoyable tune was spent at a dance held in Mr. Keelan's woolshed at Bald Nob in aid of the Australian…

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