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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
18,559 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 250
High official praise of the late Squadron-leader William Joseph Hickey, on whom the Distinguished Flying Cross was conferred…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Many Australians have thrilling tales to tell of being cut off from their comrades during the Bardia fighting and being held prisoner until rescued by…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The death of Lord Baden-Powell, and the commemorative services to be held for him, will bring back to the memory of many an Australian trooper of the South African War a clear picture of "B.-P." as he appeared to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Latest reports indicate that the preparations to assault Tobruk, the besieged Italian base in Libya, are gaining in intensity. British and Australian patrols have made contact with…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →BAILLIE STEWART (the "officer in the Tower"), with whom I rubbed shoulders at a south coast naval base, shared…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GERMANY, too, is believed to have some mechanical surprises up her sleeve as far as aircraft are concerned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Roosevelt's "Bill to promote the defence of the United States," to lend Britain everything she needs to fight and open American ports to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Below ate published extracts from the winning essays in the War Savings Week Essay Competition, open to all public and private schools. In awarding the prizes (War Savings Certificates), State and University education authorities co-operated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While in England, the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) should make strong representations to the British Government for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This story, told by a senior army medical officer to a "Sunday Sun" staff writer, carries a reassuring message to those who have relatives and friends at the front. MECHANISATION and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PAGE Three of this week's "Sunday Sun" Magazine is something worth keeping. It's a full-color map of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Saturday (A.A.P.). -- The Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, announces that Monsignor Duca, Apostolic Nuncio to Italy, has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Major-General de Dennys, of the Indian Army has taken up his appointment as military attache to the British Embassy at Chunking…
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →"PLAIN nonsense" is the answer of the Rev. H. C. Hobbin (Methodist) to an Army spokesman's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Hungarian radio says: "The American people consider the prospect of war inevitable."…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →FLOTATION of another war loan is likely. A further sum of £25,000,000 may be raised. Probably, interest rates…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Apostle of the Old School Tie, Lieut-Colonel Ralph Charles Bingham, who thinks Army commissions should be sacred to the "aristocratic, almost feudal, classes," has stirred the ire of the War Office. LIE has been ordered to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE United States will be in the war by April. This is the isolationists' argument against the Aid for Britain Bill, but it…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Assisted by Private John Fenner, pretty Ruth Billings, of the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment, cuts hydrangeas to decorate the Lady Gowrie Home, the Red Cross military hospital at Gordon. Fifty sick soldiers are at present in the home…
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