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The wars & local soldiers, 1942

19,549 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250

The Soviet at War

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 7

FROM the Soviet News Agency in London direct to "Smith's" in Australia, by air mail, have come these photographs of…

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Girl's Aluminium War Effort

The Sun · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 3

Miss Billye Wall, of Bondi Junction, delivers the goods to the Army. (See story in outside column)…

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Cannot Find "War Widow"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 2

Mr. John Maxwell, former Y.M.C.A. welfare officer with the A.I.F, who offered last week to marry a war widow, will…

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Prisoners of War Relatives

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 10

A meeting of the Australian Prisoners of War Relatives' Association, formed at a public meeting on December 12, will be held in the…

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Woman Writer In War Zone

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 1

MISS MORLEY BROOKE LISTER, ace American newspaper correspondent, is on a roving commission in the…

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Woman Writer In War Zone

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 1

MISS MORLEY BROOKE LISTER, ace American Newspaper correspondent, is on a roving commission in the…

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Woman Write In War Zone

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 1

MISS MORLEY BROOKE LISTER, ace American Newspaper correspondent, is on a roving commission in the…

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Woman Writer In War Zone

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 1

MISS MORLEY BROOKE LISTER, ace American Newspaper correspondent, is on a roving commission in the…

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Churchill To Approve Allies' War Plans

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Friday.--Allied war plans were well advanced, the Australian Minister to Washington (Mr. Casey) said yesterday. An announcement might be…

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Surfing War's Inroads on Surf Entry

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 7

North Cronulla's annual carnival opened to a flat surf with sufficient breeze to create a jobble. It was officially announced that…

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Surfing War's Inroads on Surf Entry

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 7

North Cronulla's annual carnival opened to a flat surf with sufficient breeze to create a jobble. It was officially announced that…

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State Has Big Secret War Plan

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 2

The State Government has evolved a big plan to assist the Commonwealth in its prosecution of the war…

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Surfing War's Inroads on Surf Entry

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 7

North Cronulla's annual carnival opened to a flat surf with sufficient breeze to create a jobble. It was officially announced that…

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Surfing War's Inroads on Surf Entry

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 7

North Cronulla's annual carnival opened to a flat surf with sufficient breeze to create a jobble. It was officially announced that…

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Fall of Bardia War Prisoners Released

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 11

LONDON, Jan. 2. (A.A.P.).— Allied forces have recaptured Bardia, the Axis stronghold on the Libyan coast, between…

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The Credit Side of the War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 10

Who of us does not tur[?] in these days, when nearly [?] the news from the [?], grave and disturbing, to those other…

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Unofficial History of the War Christmases

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 14

THERE is an old Digger in Gaza who goes in for the hobby of collecting Christmas memories, just as anyone else might collect stamps, coins or…

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Russia As Ally in 14-18 War

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 10

"IT has seemed to this writer, who was attached to the Russian Army and the Imperial Staff from…

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Last-war Men Go in Army Changes

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 2

Many of the military officers who have been retired from posts in the Australian Army Command, have had notable careers and have won many honors…

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Maritime War Casualties Tonnage Lost to Date

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 2

The following table records, as accurately at it practicable under the circumstances, the number and tonnage of merchant vessels lost under war conditions since September 3, 1939. Names and other details of lost vessels are not now issued by the Admiralty, but a monthly review gives the number…

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