Red Cross Society N.S.W. Division Craft Work For Soldiers
Miss Frances Wade, the chief craft-worker in the Australian Red Cross Rehabilitation Department has just returned from a seven weeks tour of…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
488 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 25
Returned Soldiers’ League
The formation of a Sub-Branch of the R.S.L. in Queanbeyan is welcome news to local membrs of the A.I.F. Navy and Air Force who have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Worker at 95
A 95-years-old veteran of the United States Civil War of 1861-1865, Henry M. Roe, of De Soto, near the large mid-western city of St. Louis,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest War News Big New Russian Offensive
LONDON.—Following Marshal Stalin's Order of the Day announcing a new offensive from the Pulkova area and south from Oranienbaum, where…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prisoners of War Exchange Proposal LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.)
Another exchange of British and American wounded prisoners for German prisoners [?] likely. Stockholm reports that the Deputy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Red Cross Society Craft Work for Soldiers
Miss Frances Wade, the chief craftworker in the Australian Red Cross rehabilitation Department, has just returned from a seven weeks' tour of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Land for Ex-soldiers First Holdings in March
The first original holdings in the better districts of the western division for returned Servicemen with land experience would be made available…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cycle of War Problems
War requirements have a tendency to move in cycles—the problems that beset a nation early in a war are solved one by one, but in their places…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Women’s War Effort
Increasingly effective mobilisation of womanpower for war production, commerce and the Services is shown in latest official figures released by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News Germans Outwitted in Italy
LONDON.—According to Vichy radio Allied forces in Italy nave made fresh landings at Terracina and the Gulf of Gaeta. An Algiers message…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Murdered Revenge the Motive
Phillip John Beattie, 24, member of a Commando unit, was fatally shot at point-blank range, on the fringe of the Adelaide Parklands at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Patriotic and War Fund Monthly Meeting
At the monthly meeting of the Queanbeyan and Yarrowlumla Shire Patriotic and War Fund Committee held on Tuesday night, there were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Prisoners of War LONDON, Thursday (Official Wireless)
Major-General Vyse, chairman of the Prisoners of War Department of the Red Cross and St. John, said, at the annual meeting of the Red Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest War News Mass Murder of Poles by Germans
LONDON.—The special Soviet Commission investigating the murder of Polish war prisoners by Germans has reported that over 11,000 corpses, clad…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prime Minister’s Warning War Sacrifices and Loss of Life
“The price paid and to be paid is heavy, not only in the exhaustion of our material resources; unhappily too many of our citizens will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Necessity Is the Mother of Invention Australian Inventors Help the Allied War Effort
On the night of November 21st, 1939, a heavy bomber set off from a German aerodrome carrying with it a huge steel ball to which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain’s Huge War Cost £13.25 Millions Each Day LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.)
Total war expenditure by Great Briatin during recent weeks had been a little more than £13,250,000 a day, said the Chancellor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bungendore Soldiers’ Bravery
Continuing their assault on the Japanese trapped on Shaggy Ridge, Australian troops on Sunday overcame all resistance in this sector…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death of Soldier Body Found on Railway Line Open Verdict at Inquest
An inquest was held at Yass Court House last Friday into the cause of death of Corporal Daniel Waddell. of the Military Forces, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nerriga Welcome Home (To the Editor of the "Review")
Sir,—Allow me a few lines of your valuable space to say a few words regarding welcome homes given at Nerriga. Saturday night's, I believe, was…
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