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The wars & local soldiers, 1943

452 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 17 of 23

Modern Chinese War— Songs

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 September 1943 · page 3

Five songs, written by Chinese fighting men during China’s six years of war against the Japanese invader, were included, in a recent…

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Liberty War Loan Organiser Visits Braidwood

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 September 1943 · page 4

At the conclusion, of Thursday's Shire Council meeting Mr. Gregory, Commonwealth War Loan Organiser, met the Council. He said that the…

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Latest War News Russia's Gigantic Blows

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 September 1943 · page 2

LONDON.—The Red Army, continuing-to-aim gigantic blows against the enemy's bastions at Smolensk and Kiev, has, in Stalin's words, broken…

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A Buckshee Job Clerk and War Damage Contributions

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 September 1943 · page 1

At Thursday's meeting of the Tallaganda Shire Council a letter was read from the War Damage Commission notifying that only one final…

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Demobilised Soldiers’ Association

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 September 1943 · page 2

Sir,—To foster a spirit of comradeship amongst all those who have served in the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth, and to create…

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Latest War News Rudolph Hess. Peace Envoy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 September 1943 · page 2

LONDON.—The Foreign Minister, Mr. Anthony Eden, revealed in the House of Commons to-day that Rudolph Hess proposed peace between…

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Latest War News

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 September 1943 · page 1

Allied planes attacking enemy targets in the Northern Solomons shot down nine Japanese fighters out of a force of 60. Two Allied…

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Mass Production of War Equipment

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 September 1943 · page 1

The enormous savings in cost of production of war equipment for the United Nations, under efficient mass production methods, was…

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R.A.F. Attacks War Potentials

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 September 1943 · page 4

"When the Germans bombed Londen and other British cities, as well as Warsaw, Belgrade and Rotterdam, they were using air power chiefly as…

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Latest War News Corsica Captured by Allies

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 September 1943 · page 3

LONDON.—Palermo radio to-night quoted an Algiers report foot all Corsica was now in Allied bands. This follows an earlier report that Bastia,…

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Red Cross Society N.S.W. Division Prisoner of War News Release

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 September 1943 · page 4

Location of Camp In Manchuria: From a Melbourne resident who has lived in Manchuria it has been ascertained that the camp Hoten,…

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Prisoners of War

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 October 1943 · page 2

In an army casualty list issued on Wednesday, 620 names are of men previously reported missing, and now reported prisoners of war. Six men…

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War Mission Coming

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 October 1943 · page 3

A British mission of Navy, Army and Air Force officers is on the way to Australia, and will arrive shortly. It will make a front-line…

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Latest War News Troops Returning

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 October 1943 · page 3

NEW YORK.—The War Department has announced the arrival at an undisclosed port of more than 600 Australian and New Zealand Army…

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Red Cross Society Prisoner of War News Release

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 October 1943 · page 4

Location of Camp In Mancnhuria.—From a Melbourne resident who has lived in Manchuria it has been ascertained that the camp Hoten, whose…

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Dairy Production Drive. Farm Mechanisation in the War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 October 1943 · page 3

The dangerous decline in the production of butter and other milk products in finis State during the past four years has been due in large…

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Huge War Bond Order CHICAGO, Wednesday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 October 1943 · page 4

Mr. Marshall Field bought ten million dollars’ worth of war bonds on his fiftieth birthday anniversary, when he received an additional…

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Home and War Front Complaints. More Bad News for Germans

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 October 1943 · page 1

To-day the German soldier, if be is not fighting Hitler's desperate losing battle against Russia, is trying to Stem the victorious British and American…

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War in Pacific Ending Not Before 1945 New York, Thursday (A.AP.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 October 1943 · page 1

Upon their return from an inspection visit to world battlefronts, including Australia, Serators Russell, Mead and Brewster told the Press…

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Killed in Action

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 October 1943 · page 3

Mr. and Mrs. Alec. Shumack, of “Springvale,” Weetangera, received advice yesterday that their son, Pte. Stan Shumack, had been killed in…

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