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The wars & local soldiers, 1944

488 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 25

Red Cross Society Relief Supplies for Prisoners or War in Thailand and Malaya

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 4

Through International Red Cross arrangements have been made for 160,000 bahts (£12,000 Aust) to be placed each month at the disposal of…

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Cpl. Merv. Berrell High Praise for Braidwood Soldier

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 2

Writing to Mrs. Berrell. Section Leader P.G.S. Elliott pays her son Merv., who was recently wounded in action in New Guinea and for a time…

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Post-war Control

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 3

There is food for deep reflection by every Australian in the report just issued by the British Institute of Public Opinion showing the result of a…

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Post-War Road Work

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 4

The necessity to have a full programme of urgent road works ready for an immediate start after the war is stressed by the N.R.M.A…

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Wool After the War

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 4

The Australian Wool Producers Federation has taken a definite stand against wool-grower organisations conferring with any wool trade…

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Latest War News Mr. Churchill Optimistic

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 2

LONDON.—It is possible that the war in the Pacific may progress more rapidly than was formerly thought possible, declared Mr. Churchill in a…

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Airmen Prisoners of War In Germany

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 3

Notice that a member of the R.A.A.F. has been taken prisoner in Germany may be received by next of kin before the camp address is…

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Modernising Highways U.S. Post-War Scheme

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 1

Although the United States of America is making preparation for a rapid and extensive development of its civil aviation post-war…

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No Free Clothing for Prisoners of War After March 31

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 4

The Government offer of a free clothing issue, to be included in quarterly parcels sent by next of kin to prisoners of war in Europe…

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Braidwood Soldier Is He Still Alive?

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 3

About two years ago word was received by his wife from the military authorities that Cpl. E. Barrett, of Braidwood, who had been reported…

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Anzac House £150,000 Needed

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 March 1944 · page 2

The move to raise £150,000 to build Anzac House, building which will be both a memorial to Australian Service men and women of the last and…

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Lower Incomes Financing the War

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 March 1944 · page 2

With [?] two-thirds of the national incomes received by people earning less than £400 a year, it is obvious that a substantial…

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Patriotic arid War Fund Committee Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 March 1944 · page 1

On Tuesday evening the monthly meeting of Queanbeyan and Yarrowlumla Shire Patriotic and War Fund was held in the Municipal…

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Latest War News Allied Withdrawal in Italy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 March 1944 · page 2

LONDON.— With the withdrawal of the Indians and New Zealanders from Monastery Hill after nine days' grim heroism and near famine, the Cassino…

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Land Attack Soon To Finish German War CAPETOWN

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 March 1944 · page 1

“A great land attack which would shortly be launched from the East, would finish the German war,” said the South African Prime Minister…

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Wool After the War

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1944 · page 1

The Australian Wool Producers' Federation has taken a definite stand.; against wool-grower organisations conferring with any wool trade interests…

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Latest War News Good Work by Italians

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1944 · page 2

LONDON.—Italian troops of Marshal Badoglio, after battling their way forward amid the snow-covered Western Appennines, have seized two…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Post-war Road Work

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1944 · page 4

The necessity to have a full programme of urgent road works ready for an immediate start after the war is stressed by the N.R.M.A. Mr. H…

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Latest War News Bombed German Battleship Ablaze

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 April 1944 · page 2

LONDON.—When last seen the German battleship Von Tirpitz, which was attacked recently In Norway, was on fire amidships.—A.A.P…

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War Agricultural Commitives. Sir Earle Pages Proposal. Canberra

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 April 1944 · page 1

Declaring that district war agricultural committees were hamstrung Sir Earle Page (Country Party, N.S.W. suggested in the House of…

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