Latest War News Big Three Meet in Berlin
BERLIN, Monday.—Mr. Churchill, Mr. Anthony Eden and President Truman arrived here yesterday for the Three-Power Conference which is to…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
398 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 11 of 20
War Pensions Rising
A bill to appropriate £13,000,000 in 1945-46 for the payment of war pensions was introduced in the House of Representatives on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest War News Belgium's King
BRUSSELS.—The Senate, by 77 votes to 58, adopted a BUI whereby King Leopold may resume his constitutional position only with the…
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Inevitably, war means casualty lists. Frequently it means widows, and children bereft of a father’s care and protection during the years they most…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Welcome Home Committee
This committee met and decided to tender a welcome home to Geoff Read, recently released P.O.W. in Germany, when he returns. Other…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Savings Group
The Fifth Annual Meeting of the War Savings Group was held in the school on July 8. In presenting the reports the Hon…
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Europe: Most Australians who were in prison camps in Europe have how been evacuated to England. Commissioner Nimmo, who supervises this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest War News Heavy Japanese Losses
GUAM.—Admiral Nimitz [?] that in last Tuesday's combined carrier plane strike against the [?] area a destroyer, cable-layer [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Children Suffer Clothing for War Victims
In parts of war devastated Europe children do not attend because they have no clothes. In some cases one garment is shared in turn by a whole family. These facts are reported by a Quaker relief worker who says…
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At last Thursday's Shire meeting a letter was read from the Australian Council for U.N.R.R.A. asking Council to organise a drive for clothing for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers' Club Room in Park
The matter of an application by the Returned Soldiers' League for a portion of Ryrie Park for the purpose of building a club room, when before last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disabled Soldiers
Supply of artificial limbs and appliances free to disabled ex-soldiers is one of the most important functions of the Commonwealth Repatriation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest War News Pte. Mayberry Wounded
In the Army casualty list issued today Pte. H. T. Mayberry, Infantry, Braidwood, is reported accidentally wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Naked—statistically. War Victims Need Clothes
"Statistically naked" is a phrase now being used in official and private circles concerned with the problem of clothing the destitute peoples of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Patriotic and War Fund Committee Meeting
The monthly meeting of Queanbeyan and Yarrowlumla Shire Patriotic and War Fund Committee was held on Tuesday night, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest War News Surrender Terms Too Lenient
LONDON.—There has thus far not been a ripple of official reaction to Dr. Evatt's announcement that Australia was unable to subscribe to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News Historic Meeting
LONDON.— Thousands of visitors are flocking to Plymouth to witness from a distance the historic meeting of his Majesty the King and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Memorial Library at Armidale
The Armidale subbranch of the Returned Soldiers' League decided at Its last meeting to support a move by the Armidale .Literary Institute to The suggestion made at last show meeting to reduce the Society's overdraft was not without a touch ol Irony. Surely the members who spoke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Club Liquor Hopes for Soldiers
Amendments to the liquor laws to be brought down in the next session of the State Parliament will, it is understood, provide for the granting of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News Japanese Claim Bombing Success
NEW YORK.—It is claimed by Tokio-radio that Japanese night bombers in a pre-dawn raid on Okinawa caught planes lined up wing to wing…
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