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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1939

226 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 12

Hollywood News "Zaza" Hair-do Starts Hollywood Fashion War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 4

The next World War has already begun! The latest of those violent feminine conflicts which from time…

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"The Anzac's Place in National Defence" (To the Editor of the "Review")

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 4

Sir,—Australia's insurance against international aggression is an adequate, scientific, highly mechanised, voluntary army…

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Militia Notes Anzac Day Arrangements

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 3

Members are reminded that the usual Anzac Day-march will take place on Tuesday, afternoon next, and all troops are requested to be at the Drill…

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Anzac D a Y Arrangements for Local Ceremony

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 2

In connection with, the Anzac Day celebrations on Tuesday next, the following arrangements have been made: Captain R. E. Weeks will be O.C…

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Anzac Day No Football in Park Canberra Request Refused

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 1

The Queanbeyan Municipal Council last night refused a request from the Canberra Rugby League Football ball Club for permission to play a…

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Latest Cable News Britain and War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 3

LONDON.—"If war ever came to the world it would, so far as the people of this country are concerned, only be because they would fee…

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Anzac Day Arrangements for Local Ceremony

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 April 1939 · page 1

In connection with the Anzac Day celebrations, the following arrangements have been made:— Captain R. E. Weeks will be O.C…

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Anzac Day Braidwood Remembers Its Fallen Heroes

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 3

Though 24 years have crept by since the redoubtable Anzacs, by I their imperishable deeds at Gallipoll, made history that astounded the…

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Anzac Day Queanbeyan Ceremonies Mayor’s Address

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 1

Queanbeyan’s celebration of Anzac Day followed the tradtions of other years and, in keeping with the experience of other centres…

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Anzac Day

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1939 · page 4

The Cenotaph is decked with flowers by women sadly weeping, Who homage pay to heroes who in Paradise are sleeping…

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War Veterans Home

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 May 1939 · page 4

On Anzac Day, His Excellency, Lord Wakehurst. opened the first section of the War Veterans Home, Legacy Park, to accommodate 43 men thereby…

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Shire Council in Trouble Breach Op Soldiers' Preference Act

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 2

It is apparent that someone has reported the Illabo Shire Council for a contravention of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Preference Act…

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U.S.A. GOODWILL Would Be Increased If Britain Paid War Debt WASHINGTON

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 1

Senator Reynolds, addressing the Senate, said the goodwill created by their Majesties visit would have been increased a thousandfold if the King…

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Britain's Soldier Sons How the New Armies Are Being Put Into Uniform

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 8

July 1st, the date when the first of Britain's 200,000 militiamen are to be called up for army service, will mark a milestone la British…

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Britain’s Soldier Sons How the New Armies Are Being Put Into Uniform

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 3

July 1st, the date when the first of Britain’s 200,000 militiamen are to be called up for Army service, will mark a milestone in British…

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Lost Soldier Found

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 June 1939 · page 2

Gunner John Harris, of the Darwin Mobile Force, was lost when he became separated from a shooting party of soldiers at Manton Gap while on a…

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What Does Hitler Want? Huge Scope of His "New Plan." Does Not Want War with England

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1939 · page 5

Germany wants——? High up in his mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden the Greatest German dreams or his Empire of tomorrow. What is…

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War and the Man on the Land (By the Minister for Defence, Brigadier G. A. Street)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 July 1939 · page 4

I am of those who prefer to talk of preservation of peace rather of preparation for war. But, as Minister for Defence in the Government of the…

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Germany's War Preparations

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 July 1939 · page 2

LONDON.—The situation in Europe is described as being slightly tenser, according to a British United Press message from Berlin. Military…

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Doctors Meet Medical Services In War

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 July 1939 · page 4

An extraordinary meeting was hold recently in the United States—The International Congress of Military Medicine…

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