Review of Australia's War Effort Advocated
A national stocktaking of Australia's war effort on the home front by practical, independent men was advocated by the leader of the Australian…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
398 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 20
Latest War News Famous German Pocket Battleship Sunk
LONDON:—The Air Ministry has announced that reconnaissance showed that R.A.F. bombing on Monday night sank the German pocket…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Empire’s War Casualties 306,984 Killed LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.) and Official Wireless
War casualties to all ranks of the British Commonwealth and Empire forces, reported from September 8, 1939, to February 28, 1945, excluding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Double Murder Charge Against Soldier
Francis Alexander Walls, 46, soldier, was charged in Central Police Court yesterday morning with having murdered Cecil Miller and Arthur Graham…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Soldiers Murdered LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.)
Fifteen British soldiers were murdered in cold blood by German marines in a German township yesterday…
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When a car and a transport truck met in a head-on collision on the Pacific Highway near Chinderah on Wednesday night, an A.I.F. sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assembled War Vehicles
In addition to making many hundreds of thousands of mobile units, aircraft, etc., for Great Britain’s war effort, that Nation’s automobile…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News Tokio Heavily Bombed
WASHINGTON, Monday.—It is officially announced that a very large force of Superfortresses from the Marianas dropped Incendiary bombs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reception of Prisoners of War From Germany
Two members of Australian Red Cross unit in England, Commissioner Jack Nimmo and Senior Representative Lt. W. Walker are leaving for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Truman Policy War Strategy Unchanged WASHINGTON, Tuesday (A.A.P.)
Beyond any shadow of doubt America will continue to fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains, President Truman declared in his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Was King of Tropic Isle
How to govern an island and care for its 200 native inhabitants were problems that confronted an Australian soldier when he found himself…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anzac Day
Queanbeyan Legacy Club and the Queanbeyan Sub-branch of R.S.S and A.I.L.A. have combined in drawing up the programme of parades to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest War News Italian Prisoners of War
CANBERRA.—The Minister for Labour, Mr. Holloway, announced to-day that the contribution to be paid by employers using the services of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Red Cross Society Food for Prisoners of War in Germany
Official confirmation from British Red Cross has reached Australian Red Cross National Headquarters that 75 lorries carrying food and medical…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Epic Story of Son’s Death Told at Loan Rally
The father of an A.I.F. sergeant who had been killed in action at Crete heard the story of his son’s death at a Third Victory Loan rally…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anzac Smoko
A “smoko” has been arranged by the local returned soldier organisations and will be held in the Parish Hall supper room at 8 p.m. tomorrow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Anzac Commemoration
Last Sunday, at the Queanbeyan Methodist Church, special services were held at commemorate Anzac Day. At the morning service…
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The Committee has arrangements well in hand for the two parades to be held to-morrow and invite all returned soldiers, and soldiers still…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wounded German Prisoners
Wounded German soldiers captured by Ninth U.S. Army forces in their drive north from Julich to the Rhineland industrial city of Munchen-Gladbach wait at Garweiler for transfer to a prisoners of-war camp hospital. The German Citadel at Julich fell February…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local and General Postal Arrangements for Anzac Day
Braidwood Post Office will be open on Wednesday next, 26th April (Anne Day) for all classes of business except money order and savings bank from…
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