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The wars & local soldiers, 1944

262 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 9 of 14

Cookery For Prisoners Of War

The North Western Courier · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 3

British Red Cross have recently issued a new edition of their Cookery Book which is produced for prisoners of war who have…

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15 Year Plan for Water Conservation Many Big Works In Pre-War Design

The North Western Courier · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 6

Speaking in the legislative Assembly, Mr. D'Arcy Rose (C.P., Upper Hunter), said he wanted to refute all the talk about the…

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New Phase in Pacific War

North West Champion · Monday 29 May 1944 · page 4

Our occupation of Bollandia and Altape marks the virtual end of the Japanese in New Guinea, say the way correspondents. It is taken as the…

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Surplus War Stocks. Melbourne

North West Champion · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 1

Widespread dislocation of Australia's internal trade and complete ruin for large numbers of employers and employees could result from the…

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Sick and Wounded Soldiers. Melbourne

North West Champion · Monday 5 June 1944 · page 1

Senator Fraser last night replied to the report that wounded soldiers still in military hospitals had been told that they would be discharged…

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War Agricultural Committee

North West Champion · Monday 5 June 1944 · page 5

We have received from the Chairman of the District War Agricultural Committee, Moree, information concerning quite a number of matters…

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Doing War Work at 83

North West Champion · Monday 5 June 1944 · page 6

Mr. W. Finkernagel, a former well-known resident of Bingara, has just paid a brief visit to that town. Mr. Finkernagel went to Bingara…

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Fall of Rome Amazing Welcome for Allied Soldiers "Crazy Sunday" London

The North Western Courier · Monday 5 June 1944 · page 1

Rome—the greatest prize which has yet fallen to the United Nations in this war—is in Allied hands…

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The British People at War

The North Western Courier · Thursday 8 June 1944 · page 9

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

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Petrol in Short Supply After War

The North Western Courier · Thursday 8 June 1944 · page 8

The opinion appears to be fairly general amongst automotive authorities in Great Britain and the U.S.A. that…

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Japanese Prisoners of War

The North Western Courier · Monday 12 June 1944 · page 3

Under cover of a U.S. Marine guard, Japanese prisoners, clad in new clothes supplied by their American captors, march down the ramp of a ship on an Allied base in the Pacific. U.S.D. of I. picture…

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Abattoirs Narrabri's Post War Goal

The North Western Courier · Monday 12 June 1944 · page 4

Eighteen Councils will be represented at the First Committee meeting of Region 12, to take place at Narrabri on…

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The War

Manilla Express · Tuesday 13 June 1944 · page 2

The Allied invasion as making splendid progress and already at least a quarter of a million men, well equipped with war…

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Wounded Japanese Prisoner

The North Western Courier · Friday 16 June 1944 · page 10

His arm in a sling after U.S. medical officers treated his wounds, a Japanese soldier, taken prisoner during the capture of Eniwetok, major atoll in the Marshall Islands, is turned over to a Coast Guardsman in charge of prisoners aboard a U.S. transport…

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Light for Wounded Comrade

The North Western Courier · Friday 16 June 1944 · page 10

A U.S. soldier bends down to light a cigarette for a wounded Chinese comrade during the fighting to the Hukawng Valley in Northern Burma. American and Chinese, forces advancing in a two-pronged thrust drove the Japanese from the strategic valley. U.S. D of I…

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Public Schools' War Effort

The North Western Courier · Monday 19 June 1944 · page 5

The children in the public schools continue in their efforts to raise money for war purposes and various patriotic…

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Post War Workers

The North Western Courier · Thursday 22 June 1944 · page 9

Although population in the early post-war years will probably be 8 per cent, higher than in 1938-39, numbers engaged in or…

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Creator of Dr. Kildare War Victim

The North Western Courier · Thursday 22 June 1944 · page 2

Max Brand, 52, the well-known American fiction-writer and correspondent for Harper's on the Garigliano River sector (Italian…

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Dog Attracts Help Wounded Boundary Rider

The North Western Courier · Thursday 6 July 1944 · page 1

The arrival of Ms dog with a bloodstained handkerchief tied around its neck led to the search, and subsekuent…

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