After The War
In the construction of the £3,000,000 naval graving dock in Sydney Harbour, Australian materials will be used by Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1941
1,542 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 2 of 78
Daily Summary of the War
Monday,—For the past few days Bardia (in Libya) had been the main objective of the British at tack by land, sea and air. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Specialised Units. New Types of Trucks Produced for War
One feature of more transport production for Army requirements for this war is the number of different duties which have to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Films To-day
Highlight of the programme at the Monarch and Roxy Theatres to-day will be Department of information official newsreel films of the attack of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australians' Search In Desert Quest of Wounded Italians In Prison Camp Bardia
The plains, deep gorges and wadis of the Bardia perimeter to-day are dotted with thousands of Australians busy at work searching…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cutting the War's Cost to the People
IT has been announced that, although the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Fadden) produced as his first effort a Budget which imposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Defence And War Cost In Single Year Canberra, Friday night
Treasury officials revealed to-day that the Commonwealth had spent £63,993,000 internally on defence and the war in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grim Year Weathered by Britain Tide Turns in Closing Stages, Raising Hope Crippling of Italy Chances Face of War—australia's Conspicuous Part
Britain has weathered one of the most searching years of her history—a year of ruthless modern warfare, of bitter early reverses, and of merciless indiscriminate batterings from the air…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers Appreciate Comforts From Home Town
The following letter of application has been received by the secretary of the Wellington A.I.F. Comforts Fund from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Policemen Leave Shanghai to Enlist China Now Not So Quiet—war Effect Assassinations In International Settlement—Japanese Have Slender Chance in Conflict
Resigned from the Shanghai municipal police force, Messrs. F. H. Sadler and J. Salisbury, who are about to enlist, left China without any great regrets. In the first place, they were anxious to go to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Visit to Turkey—Effect On Whole War Ankara
General Cornwall and Air Vice-Marshal Elmburst, representing the Middle East Command, have arrived here for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rawsonville Tribute to Soldiers Presentations When On Leave
During Christmas leave of members of the A.I.F., many residents of Rawsonville met in the lounge of the Court House Hotel to pay tribute to men of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One Week of War Desert Battle Now in Its Final Phase New Defensive Line Seems Impossible Italy's Internal Problems—Albanian Campaign
With the fall of Bardia and the penetration of the Italian defences at Tobruk, the battle of the Western Desert is entering its final phase. After the fall of Tobruk, which military authorities regard as imminent,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →P.M. Wonders Why Man Stopped Where He Did Excused If He Had Given Neighbor a Hiding "Filthy Insults" in West Dubbo's "War of Nerves"—pensioner Fined
"It is no wonder he acted as he did. I wonder that he did not are farther, jump the fence, and give this man (Perrin) the hiding that he deserved. There can be nothing more insulting to a man than to hear filthy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Western Centres Narromine Soldier Wounded First of Local Troops Repairs to Railway Station
Private T. Cleary, of Narromine, has been wounded, presumably in the battle of Bardia. A telegram from Army Headquarters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australia's War Industry
A mortar bomb, almost completed one of the thousands manufactured in Australia, is tested under a powerful metallurgical…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Fund Auxiliary Successful Gift Week Packing Parcels for Soldiers
A report submitted to a meeting of the Dubbo and District Patriotic and War Fund women's auxiliary on Monday disclosed that a gift week, held…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Greek War Relief Fund
At Friday's Shire Council imeet ing a letter was received from the Greek War Relief Fund asking for the co-operation of council in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our First Casualty Private B. N. Bensley Wounded in Action
Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Bensley, of Gilgandra, received the following telegram on Tuesday from the Minister for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Buy War Certificates To Reduce Taxation
You simply write off us none for ever money paid in taxation. And to-day taxation is heavier than before in history, for with war and…
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