Red Cross Society Hein for Prisoners of War
One of the most interesting international activities of the Red Cross Cross Society is the Prisoners of War Bureau. The Australian Bed Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1941
573 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 29
Government’s Assurances Are Accepted Unions Rally Behind War Effort
Following assurances by the Government that anomalies in the weekly instalment tax plan would speedily be adjusted, major trade unions have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War News at Home and Abroad Australia's Fine Munitions Effort
Due to the whole hearted efforts in the entire field of the engineering machine tools for munitions and aircraft production covering a most extensive…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian Red Cross N.s.w. Division Help for Prisoners of War
One of the most interesting international activities of the Red Cross Society is the Prisoners of War Bureau. The Australian Red Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War News
British successes in Libya and East Africa have brought Italy within measurable distance of complete defeat in Africa, and, added to Greek…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telegraphic News War Close to Australia
At the conclusion of last night's advisory War Council meeting a Labour member of- the Council, who has consistently opposed the idea of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War R.a.f. Active
LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.).—The R.A.F. last night resumed its attacks over a wide area on a scale larger than for the last fortnight,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Defence Review By Advisory War Council
The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, said in Melbourne it was evident from Wednesday’s discussions that the members of the War Advisory…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Menzie’s Pledge to A.I.F. “Australia is Behind You” (From the Commonwealth’s Acting Official War Correspondent) GAZA, February 5
“The war is not about to end; it is only beginning,” said the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Menzies, addressing many thousands of members…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Capture of Derina Part played by Australians (From Sergeant Ian G. Fitchett, Acting Official War Correspondent with the A.I.F. in the Middle East)
With the capture of Derna on Thursday, the A.I F. has completed three major actions and covered 180 miles in the brief space of 27 days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Active War Savings Groups
One of Australia's most active war savings groups is that of Amalgamated Wireless [?] Limited, which in Sydney consists of more than 2,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain’s Sound War Finance
It says much for the soundness of British finance that Great Britain is able to meet the following rate of expenditure of £4,000,000,000 without any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News at Home and Abroad Large Orders for Australian War Equipment
Since the return of the Australian Delegation from the Eastern Group Conference at Delhi last. December, orders to the value of £2,000,000 have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War Britain and the Dictators
LONDON (A.A.P.).— The Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, to a broadcast of the events of the last few months, declared:—"We have stood…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War News London, Sunday (A.A.P.)
GenCa, Italy’s most important commercial port, and one of the biggest manufacturing centres, with a population more than 600,000, was bombarded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Red Cross Message From Prisoner of War
The Red Cross Society in Sydney have just received a unique communication from a German prison camp. They believe it is the first of its kind…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Latest War News London, Monday. (B.O.W. and A.AP.)
The occupation of Karora and Mersataclai presents the Italians in Eritrea with a new threat. Mersataclai is a village forty miles, down the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian Red Cross N.s.w. Division Red Cross Message From Prisoner of War
The Red Cross Society in Sydney have just received a unique communication from a German prison camp. They believe it is the first of its kind…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Council Warning
War developments which may lead to direct attack on Australia have become graver since Wednesday night, when the Acting Prime Minister, Mr…
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