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The wars & local soldiers, 1943

452 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 22 of 23

War Tension Growing in Turkey

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 December 1943 · page 2

LONDON.—Quoting Ankara despatches, the Cairo correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says Turkey will call up another million, men within a month…

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Latest War News Allied Progress in Italy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 December 1943 · page 2

LONDON.—Fifth Army spearheads to-night, with the majority of the Camino and Maggiore ranges in Allied hands, are pushing down to the Liri…

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Queanbeyan Returned Soldiers Decide on the Formation of a Sub-branch of the R.S.S. & A.I.L.A.

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 December 1943 · page 1

Called for the purpose of considering the question of forming a sub-branch of the Returned Soldering’ League in Queanbeyan, the meeting held in the Council Chambers on Tuesday night was largely attended. Several soldiers discharged from the 2nd A.L.F…

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IMPRISONMENT For Enlistment Failure

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 December 1943 · page 2

At Canberra Court on Wednesday Trayton Willoughby Rosewarne was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for failure to take the oath of…

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War Fosters Invention

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 2

An interesting sidelight on Australia’s rich fund of resourcefulness is provided by the range and number of inventions submitted to the…

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War Prisoners Back

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 2

The first batch of Australian Army war prisoners, mostly medically unfit, who have been In German camps or, hospitals for nearly three…

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Road Casualties. During War-Time

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 1

Since the war began 2,046 people have been killed in road accidents in New South Wales and 28,394 have been injure — a total casualty list of 30,440…

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Prisoners of War Arrive in Australia

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 2

After two and a half years in German prisoner of war camps 185 repatriated A.I.F. prisoners have arrived back in Australia. The…

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Magnificent War Job Motor Transport in Australia

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 3

Just as motor transport was essential to industry and the development of the Commonwealth in pre-war days, so it has done and is doing a…

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Latest War News Fierce Fighting in Russia

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 2

LONDON.—Maintaining the intensity of the Germans' protracted counter-blow against the Kiev salient, the enemy is concentrating as many as…

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Soldier’s Poems

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 2

“The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels and Other Verses”, a volume by Sapper Bert Beros (who was in the Middle East and is now in New Guinea),…

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Post-War Planning Regional Development

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 2

With a view of facilitating planned development after the war my Government has set in hand a survey of the resources of the State. As a…

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Latest War News the King's Health

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 2

LONDON.—His Majesty the King, who has been suffering from influenza, resumed his ordinary duties and gave a number of audiences…

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Australia's Wool Consumption. Post-war Aspects

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:— The Australian mills during resent years have consumed wool to the value of £9,000,000 to £10,000,000 annually,…

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Australia’s Wool Consumption Post-War Aspects

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 2

The Australian mills during recent years have consumed wool to the value of £9,000,000 to £10,000,000 annually, the average used for the post three…

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Post-war Work (To the Editor of the "Dispatch")

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 1

Sir,—It would make a cat laugh to see our Shire Council as a body of men giving £10 to the Show Society as prize money to induce the people of…

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Decentralisation and Post-War Planning Country Party Conference Adopts Fadden Proposal

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 2

The Australian Country Party conference, at which N.S.W., Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia were represented, agreed to a…

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Australian Soldiers Praised. Nothing Can Stop Them."

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 3

"After all we have seen, and after having talked with these grand Australian trcops, I may say that the remark made by Napier about the…

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STALIN— Soldier, Statesman and Scholar 64th Birthday Anniversary

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 2

On December 21 the Soviet Union will celebrate the 64th birthday of her great leader in war and peace, Joseph Stalin…

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Calico for Soldier’s Parcels Warning Against Abuse of Concession

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 2

A recent decision to allow the sale of calico for parcels to all Service personnel coupon free should not be taken as an opportunity to buy large…

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