Used Coupons Help War Effort
“Buy only what you need, and thus save coupons.” Most people are familiar with this slogan of the Rationing Commission which is aimed to…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
398 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 20
Latest War News Battle for Budapest
LONDON, Thursday.—Russian troops reached the banks of the Danube at several points inside Budapest after the Germans blew up the great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News Reported Landing on Luzon
NEW YORK, Monday.—The Americans, have landed on Luzon, main island of the Philippines, on which the capital, Manila, is situated, Tokyo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commonwealth War Expenditure
War expenditure for the last six months of 1944 totalled £233,175,000, compared with £281, 694,000 for the last six months of 1943…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News the Fight for Budapest
LONDON, Thursday.—Though severely mauled by the Russians, German tank groups west and north-west of Budapest are massing for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australia’s War Effort American Recognition WASHINGTON, Friday (A.A.P.)
Australia had been a powerful factor in the war against Japan and had contributed to the limit of her resources, Secretary of War, Mr. Stimson,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Not Only a War But Revolution Bishop Burgmann on Problems That Lie Ahead
I would like to be able to wish you a happy and prosperous New Year, and so far as possibilities allow I do so, but all the facts of the present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Service to Repatriated Prisoners of War
As requested at a previous Council meeting, the Social Service Department has undertaken to pay special heed to the needs of returned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →English Prisoners of War Want to Come to Australia
Englishmen in Stalag 357, Germany, are keen to have details of Australia’s schemes for post-war emigration. In response to a request from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.s. Women Soldiers in India
Members of the U.S. Women’s Army Corps just arrived in India shop at an Army post-exchange for shoulder patch insignia of the China-Burma-India theatre. The CBI patch consists of the sun of China and the star of India hand woven into the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest War News Japan Is Feeling the Allied Might
WASHINGTON.—A sizeable force of China-based Super [?]critresses bombed installations in the vicinity of Shinchiku, Formosa, in daylight on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Real Christmas (For “The Queanbeyan Age,” by C. C. Faulkner, Accredited War Correspondent)
“This makes it a real Christmas.” The speaker was Sgt. Ralph Clothier of Queanbeyan, whom I met at the most advanced base of the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Back to Civilian Jobs Re-establishment of Men and Women from Services (Issued by the Ministry of Post-War Reconstruction)
Principal purpose of the Re-establishment Division of the Ministry of Post-War Reconstruction is the training or re-training for civil life of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Soldier’s Due
“...we are at least getting round to an appreciation of what war and its consequences are all about. It is not always possible to manage,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News Braidwood Flyer Missing
In the R.A.A.F. casualty list issued to-day W/O D. Royds, of Braidwood, is reported missing in air operations overseas.—A.A.P…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grief Over Greece Shire to Conduct the War
At last meeting of Tallaganda Shire Council a letter was read from the Shire of Kearsley asking co-operation in the following resolution:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Service to Repatriated Prisoners of War
As requested at a previous Council meeting, the Social Service Department has undertaken to pay special heed to the needs of returned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest War News New Landing on Burma Coast
CALCUTTA.—British forces have made yet another lauding on the Burma coast, when they established a mile-deep bridgehead north-east of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest War News Bombs on Tokio
New York, radio asserts that Superfortresses on Saturday night and before dawn to-day raided Tokio, dropping bombs and Incendiaries.—-A.A.P…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Troops War Role
In a broadcast to the United States on Wednesday, the Minister for the Army, Mr. Forde, declared that “The Australian Army at present is…
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