Murray Robson Enlists in Second A.I.F. Sydney
Mr. Murray Robson, U.A.P. Member for Vaucluse in the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly, has enlisted in the field artillery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1940
1,328 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 5 of 67
Soldiers' Records
The military authorities will keep two personal files for every member of the 2nd A.I.F. One will be compiled by a special Records…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →40 Dead And Three Missing War on Neutrals London
Survivors from the steamer Biarritz which sank in the North Sea following an explosion, total seven of the crew and 14 passengers, while 40 are dead…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australians Prepare To Face The Effects Of The War Not Content To Sit Back, Says Mr. Menzies Melbourne, Friday night
Correcting what he described as a comman misapprehension, the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) in a broadcast to-day said that it was false to think that Australians were content to sit back and hold what…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier's Death Fell on Sentry's Bayonet Sydney, Friday night
Detectives are satisfied that Private Donald Kirk Campbell (28), of the A.I.F., received the bayonet wound from which he died last night as the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Radio Highlights of the A.B.C. PROGRAMME "The Little Soldier"
Once upon a time—yes, it is a real fairy story once upon a time there was a soldier marching home from war, and the road he was following…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Machines British Fighter Types
Royal Air Force fighter defence consists of Supermnrine Spitfires, Hawker Hurricanes and Gloster Gladiators…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australia's War Bill £75,000,000 This Year
In terms of money, this, financial year, Australia's Government will spend on direct war purpose about £75,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War Day by Day Second A.i.f. March
Cheering thousands lined Melbourne streets under an overcast sky to witness the march of 5,000 members of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Germany Does Not Want War in Balkans Would Close Valuable Ports
Referring to the conference of German Ministers to Balkan States, which was held in Berlin at the week end, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fifty Thousand More Miners Are Helping Britain to Pay in Coal for the War
"Old King Coal" is helping Britain to say for the war by providing a valuable export to set against imports of war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →China Might Draw U.S.A. Into War London
Sir Frederick Whyte, Director of the American section of the British Department of Information in a speech suggested the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Act a Farce” Preference to Returned Men
Though twenty-nine applications were received for the position of secretary to the Glen Innes District Hospital, the board of directors,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Electric Horses” War-time Measure
Petrol rationing and increased taxation has given British manufacturers a chance to show what they can provide in models of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Demand for Space Germany's War Aims
One assertion or definition in some form or another appears in almost every general statement of German war aims. It is that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Polish War Victims Australia-wide Appeal
The Polish War Victims Relief Fund has now been organised on an Australia-wide basis. Separate Polish appeals are being conducted in New…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Sacrifices Must Be Made by Britain
“Britons are expected to make unprecedented sacrifices, not only to meet the huge cost of war arid the preservation of their liberty,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Diggers at it Again War Stories Recalled
Australian Diggers in England are at it aagln. The “Evening Standard,” London, has published a front-page…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Allied War Effort R.A.A.F. Recruiting
The response to the call for technicians for the R.A.A.F. has been so heavy in Sydney, that it has been necessary to open a second…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hitler's Tirade Against the Allies "Will Give Them All the War They Want"
"England and France wanted war last year. They did not want an understanding. The first phase of this struggle was political…
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