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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1942

483 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 22 of 25

£100,000,000 War and Austerity Loan "You Cannot Let Our Soldiers Down!" Mr. Curtin's Challenge to All Australians

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 November 1942 · page 1

"There are cankers in this community. They consist of the abuse of one's personal resources, including his own physical attributes. Waste your…

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Australian Women in Action Feeding War Workers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 November 1942 · page 1

Miss N. B. Willis, dietitian in the Food Service Section of the Department of Labour and National Service, knows down to the…

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The War All North Africa in Allied Hands

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 November 1942 · page 3

LONDON.—Allied Headquarters has announced that all North Africa, including Morocco, had capitulated at 7 a.m. to-day…

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Latest War News

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 November 1942 · page 1

Australian and American forces have linked up and are closing on Buna and Gona. A decisive battle for Papua is expected…

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Austerity Loan Civilians’ War Task

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 November 1942 · page 1

The Minister for the Army, Mr. Forde, and Mr. Menzies, M.P., in a national ‘twin broadcast’ on Sunday night called on the civilian…

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The War Battle for Stalingrad

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 November 1942 · page 2

LONDON.—Despatches received from. Moscow and Stockholm give prominence to fighting in the northern factory area of Stalingrad, which…

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Wool and the War Weight- of Bales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 November 1942 · page 2

The presence of Allied armies in North Africa opens the way for some recovery in wool consumption by a proportion of the population of the…

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Post War Reconstruction

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 4

Sir—A good deal is being said and written about making provision for our men when the war ends. Dr. Evatt, M.P., is firing some blank…

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District War Agricultural Committees

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 2

Following the formation of District war Agricultural Committeesm, the Department of commerce has received many offers from country…

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“How I Bought a War Bond”

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 4

A housewife at a River Murray town tells how she is meeting instalments on an Austerity War Loan bond. Her letter is a practical…

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Wool and the War Weight of Bales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 1

The presence of Allied armies in North Africa opens the way for some recovery in wool consumption by a proportion of the population of the…

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The War Japanese Version of Solomons Battle

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 2

NEW YORK.—The official Tokio radio, referring to the Solomons battle, gave American losses as eight cruisers and four or five destroyers…

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Agricultural Economics Division Rendering Valuable National War Service

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 1

In fulfilment of the promise made in my country policy speech prior to the last elections, the Division of Agricultural Economics was set up as an…

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Special Appeal Qudanbeyan & Yarrowlumla Shire Patriotic and War Fund

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 2

The people of Queanbeyan and district are aware that it is some considerable time since the committee of the Queanbeyan and…

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Thought War Was Over

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 November 1942 · page 2

A clandestine paper published in France cheers up its readers with an occasional joke. One was about a very small man who punched a…

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War and Austerity Loan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 November 1942 · page 3

The Federal Treasurer (Mr. Chifley) was able to announce last week that subscribers to the Austerity loan had passed the 100,000 mark…

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The War Big Russian Scuccess

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 November 1942 · page 2

LONDON.—News of a big Russian success north-west and also south from Stalingrad is given in a special announcement by Mascow Radio,…

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From a Prisoner of War

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 November 1942 · page 3

"We are all feeling like Cinderella-men; the Good Fairy has again brandished the old wand, and, behold, after over 12 months of rags and…

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Red Cross Society N.S.W. Division From a Prisoner of War

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 November 1942 · page 3

“We are all feeling like Cinderella-men, the Good Fairy has again brandished the old wand and behold after twelve months of rags and…

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District War Agricultural Commtitees

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 November 1942 · page 4

Following the formation of District War Agricultural Committees, the Department of Commerce has received many offers from country bodies…

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