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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1941

573 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 26 of 29

Red Cross Workers Take War Risks

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 October 1941 · page 3

Red Cross workers in the Middle East frequently take the same war risks as the men to the front lines. Quite recently two Red Cross…

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The War Sir Earle Page in London

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 October 1941 · page 2

LONDON.—Sir Earle Page, on arrival by plane to-day, said he intended to place before the British Cabinet Australia's views on the strategy…

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Latest War News London, Thursday (A.a P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 October 1941 · page 1

It was announced in Berlin that another fifty Yugoslavs have been executed at Belgrade in reprisal for the shooting of German sentries…

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Annual Meeting Queanbeyan and Yarrowlumh Shire Patriotic and War Fund

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 October 1941 · page 1

On Tuesday night the second annual meeting of the above was held at the Municipal Council Chambers. There was a fair attendance, the President,…

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Spectacular Convoy to Visit Us War Lean and Recruiting “Men and Money”

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 October 1941 · page 1

A rare opportunity of seeing seme of the latest and most modern weapons in mechanised warfare is being given to the people of…

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Spectacular Convoy to Visit Us War Loan and Recruiting "Men and Money"

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 October 1941 · page 1

A rare opportunity of seeing some of the latest and most modern weapons in mechanised warfare is being given to the people of this district…

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The War Desperate Position in Russia

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 November 1941 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday.—The Germans how appear to be spreading all over the Crimea, having already taken Simferopol, the capital of the…

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Latest War News Cairo, Monday, (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 November 1941 · page 1

On Saturday night Naples and Palermo were raided, but on a smaller scale than on Friday night. Fires were started at Naples…

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Australian Red Cross N.s.w. Division Prisoners of War Day

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 November 1941 · page 4

Three hundred branches of the Red Cross Society have aready sent in large orders for badges to be sold on Prisoners of War Day. Sydney and…

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Soldiers’ Letters

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 November 1941 · page 3

Included among letters from members of the A.I.F. .read at last week’s meeting of the Queanbeyan and Yarrowlumla Shire Patriotic and War…

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The War America and Japan

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 November 1941 · page 2

WASHINGTON.—The Secretary of State, Mr. Hull, said to-day that he did not know whether the Japanese envoy, Mr. Kurusu, who was flying to…

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War Loan and Recruiting Appeals for Active Support

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 November 1941 · page 1

At midday on Wednesday an A.I.F. mechanised convoy arrived in Queanbeyan and was drawn up in the centre of Monaro Street. On a tour of towns of the Southern District its…

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War Loan Appeal Braidwood Rally

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 November 1941 · page 5

At last week's rally in Braidwood Mr. H. E. Bury, War Loan Representative, after being introduced by F. G. Wilkinson (Chairman) made a…

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The War the British Navy Strikes

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 November 1941 · page 7

LONDON.—The Admiralty announces that two convoys, consisting of ten enemy supply ships, were annihilated in the Central Mediterranean…

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Timely Warning Primary Production and the War

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 November 1941 · page 2

While our attention is naturally focussed on the all-important task of winning this war, we are apt to overlook a most important side of our…

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War Memorial Opened To-day Large Crowd Present

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 November 1941 · page 1

In bright sunshine, tempered with a westerly wind the Australian War Memorial was officially opened at Canberra this morning in the presence…

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War News Bulletin of News in Brief Garages Do Munition Work

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 November 1941 · page 8

A number of Victorian garages have been converted into munition workshops in splendid fashion, and are now filling an important niche in…

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War Postage Tax

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 November 1941 · page 2

The Postmaster-General, Senator Ashley, expects that the bill to give effect to the Budget proposal for a war postage tax of one-halfpenny…

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Comforts Depot and Anzac Buffet Visited by Country Press

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 November 1941 · page 1

During the recent annual Country Press Conference in Sydney wives of delegates made an inspection of the Comforts Depot of the Lord Mayor's…

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The War Hitler's Hopes Dashed to the Ground

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 November 1941 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, told the House of Commons to-day that remarks made by Rudolf Hess, Hitler's…

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