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The wars & local soldiers, 1944

2,418 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 121

Volga, Guerrilla Chief, Tells Odessa Story of War From Catacombs

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 April 1944 · page 6

MOSCOW. Tuesday: I am with the Partisans of Odessa—the guerrillas who came out of their holes at night and fought the Germans in Russia's seventh biggest city, which the Red Army captured a few weeks ago…

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Britain's Problems After War Fabian Society Essays Give Varying Views

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 April 1944 · page 3

Problems of post-war reconstruction, how it is to be designed and achieved, whether under Government contro' or by private enterprise with privates risk, aye matters exercising the mind of many in England an wellas m Australia…

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Mr. Curtin in Washington Would Like Americans Here After War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 April 1944 · page 4

WASHINGTON, April 25. A.A.P.—Mr. Curtin told a Press conference that his discussions so far in Washington had been…

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Soldiers' Parcels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 April 1944 · page 6

Sir,—If "Disgusted Mother" and other soldiers' mothers wrapped their parcels in hessian and sewed them up securely, the parcels would arrive m…

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University Courses For 132 Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 April 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Already 132 discharged members of the forces have been enrolled for university courses under the Commonwealth…

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Soldier Saw Father Killed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 April 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Nineteen-year-old Gunner Milton Thomas Green told a District Court Martial that "the bottom dropped out of…

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Getting Returned Men Back Into Jobs

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 5

After inspecting the system followed by the Newcastle National Service office in finding employment for men discharged from the forces, he had the impression that every sympathy was being extended to returned soldiers by the…

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Good Job for Returned Men National Service Officers Praised

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 2

Mr. S. F. Webb Northern representative on the State Council of the Returned Soldiers' League, said at a meeting of the District Council…

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Helping the War Effort

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 5

HAMILTON SEND-OFF and Welcome-home Younger not will entertain members of the Services at tea and a social evening in the Hamilton…

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Second Tribunal for War Pensions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The Repatriation Minister (Mr. Frost) announced that a second War Pensions Entitlement Appeal Tribunal would…

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No American-Japs For Pacific War

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—The War Department says that the United States Army will not use any of the 10,000…

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No Homes in City for War Workers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Director-General of Manpower (Mr. Wurth) said many workers no longer required in country munition factories…

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Total War Costs £312,500,000,000

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—The belligerent nations have spent almost 1,000,000,000,000 dollars (£A312,500,OO0,0OO) on this…

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Free Travel for Soldiers Is Supported

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 4

A Newcastle soldier who had been granted special leave from a forward area in New Guinea following the death of his wife, had…

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Banner for War Memorial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 April 1944 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday.—A banner, worked in the colours of the Australian Army Service Corps and bearing the signatures of the Prime…

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War Reporters Are Honored

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 April 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.—War correspondents Alan Moorehead ("Dally Express") and Alexander Clifford ("Daily Mail") each…

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Rsl Ideas for Post-war

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 April 1944 · page 4

Suggestions for the control of home-building and the combating of various difficulties associated with the rehabilitation…

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"War Not Yet Over For Mainland"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 April 1944 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Minister for Home Security (Mr. Lazzarini) after conferring with Chiefs of Staff of the services, has…

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U.S. Plan to Take War Dead Home

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 April 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK, April 27. A.A.P.—The War Department will shortly submit a proposal to bring the bodies of American war dead…

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Letters to Editor Soldiers' Parcels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 April 1944 · page 6

Sir,—Both our husbands are serving in New Guinea. They have not received a parcel or paper for life last six months…

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