Honour Roll
The time has arrived for the compilation of an Honour Roll for Manilla and district. All who have enlisted in the Services will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →North West (Tamworth to Moree) · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1944
262 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 10 of 14
War Facts in Brief
Britain's 25-pounder gun as a howitzer has a range of 10,000 yards. An elevating wheel allows it to be used as a high-velocity…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chester Wilmot, War Reviewer
We Australian war correspondent is better known to the troops and to A.B.C. listeners than Chester Wilmot. now in Normandy, and with a record…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colin Wills, War-cpt. in France
A journalist and A.B.C. broadcaster, who went, to London before the war and has been a B.B.C. man ever since. He is sending vivid war stories…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Petrol Shortage Paralysing Nazi War Machine LONDON
A petrol shortage has developed on the German front in Normandy, and a number of German tanks and motor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Supplies Through Cherbourg Will Speed Up Normandy Campaign London
Tanks, guns and general war material will shortly be pouring' direct to the Normandy battlefields from American…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.s. Soldiers Practice Landings
American fighters training in Great Britain, spring from landing barges and charge a beach during combined U.S.-British war manoeuvres.—U.S. Office of War, Inf. Picture…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War
The Russians are sweeping on to further victories. They have driven the enemy back to the line where the Germans…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Post War Food Plans
Miss Lorna Peake, B.Sc., Dietician, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,, contributes the following interesting article in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Returned Soldiers What Shall Their Organisation Be?
Unless the R.S.L. widens its vision and opens its doors to the servicemen and women of this war, it will gradually fade away…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Primary Producer and the Referendum "A Great Post War Charter" Special Article by the Attorney-general, the Right Honourable Dr. H.V. EVATT
The Australian people are determined that after this war neither returned servicemen and women nor demobilised war workers nor the men on the land who have coped with the many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →German Prisoner of War
This German prisoner, captured in the battle of the Normandy beaches when the Allied Expeditionary Force made the initial landings in France June 6, 1944, still wears his Afrika Korps arm band. He is seen here in a prisoner-of-war encampment in England…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Post War Farming Rural Problems Discussed
Among the foremost tasks of the post-war period in Australia will be the solution of the problems of the primary producers. Under the pressure of war-time needs, while some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Greatest War Film
"Desert Victory" which has been hailed as the greatest war film ever made shows the great victory by the British 8th. Army…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anzac House Appeal
At the usual monthly meeting of the Manilla Returned Soldiers League a special committee was formed for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Loan Committee Meeting
A meeting of the Narrabri War Loan Committee was held at the Council Chambers on Tuesday evening to meet the Country War…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Pacts in Brief
Britain's war expenditure is being maintained at the rate of £13,250,000 a day. War-time food exports from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Primary Producer and the Referendum "A Great Post-war Charter"
The Australian people are determined that after this war neither returned Servicemen and women nor demobilised war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anzac House
The New South Wales Police Force are confronted with the task of raising £25,000 for the above mentioned cause,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Science of War
The value of the part played by Australian scientists in the war effort is incalculable, states the latest edition of the Department of…
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