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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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The important part played by metal companies in the war effort was emphasised by Sir Colin Fraser, chairman of Broken Hill South Ltd., at the adjourned annual meeting held in Melbourne. "While the principal business of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What am I fighting for? Here's all I know A land I know above all other things; A town where I was born-- where lost winds blow-- Remembered dreams above all crowns and kings…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clad only in his pyjamas, a soldier whom military police awakened and arrested at a house in Macarthur-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Dozens of men have had to he specially measured and fitted for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"ALL I've got to show for what I offered is a little brass badge to wear in my coat," says K. C. Richards, of Irymple (Vic)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NINE Brisbane families, who between them have contributed several men to the fighting forces, are faced with the prospect of being evicted from their homes by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Australian soldier, Edward Olsen 31, was slashed on the head with a knife early yesterday when he entered a house in Womerah Avenue, King's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Saturday.--Several hundred people watched a pitched battle between half a dozen policemen and two A.I.F…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THOMAS H. WALSH (22), A.I.F., suffered a fracture of the left leg, a probable fracture of the skull and extensive lacerations to the head and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THOMAS H. WALSH (22), A.I.F., suffered a fracture of the left leg, a probable fracture of the skull and extensive lacerations to the head and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE, Saturday.--Several hundred people watched a pitched battle between half a dozen policemen and two A.I.F…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Revolution that was begun in 1917 by a handful of leather-coated working men and pallid intellectuals waving…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →CHRISTMAS and New Year are just over, and we're starting to take the wrappings off 1943! A fresh year always takes just a little adjusting — such as remembering to put that new 3 (instead of 2) when you're scribbling the date! And, things may be difficult as regards maintaining the Austerity programme, and buckling down to tin tacks (and some of them have very hard points) but we can see daylight ahead and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →ACW ELVIA MULHARE, the WAAF "poster girl," thinks post-war fashions are going to be very largely modelled…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEW YORK, Sat.--Mrs. Robert Bishop, 19, one of the first Australian brides of U.S. servicemen to arrive in the United States,, says many more Americans will marry Australian girls. "Many U.S. soldiers and sailors say they will return to…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Back home in America this week two front-ranking war correspondents, one from Russia, the other from Australia, told briefly how the battle was going on the fronts they had been covering…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In the two air battles they have fought so far in New Guinea Lockheed-Lightning fighters have shot down 24 Zeros and dive bombers with only one Lightning damaged in a crash landing, and a piece of the wing torn off another. In the first battle last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Full of Christmas pudding, Gen. Montgomery's 8th Army reached the vicinity of Beurat last week…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →AN art exhibition for artists in the Services or essential war work will be held at the Melbourne Athenaeum Gallery from January 25 to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →HONOLULU, Sat.--The Americans' Christmas Eve raid an Wake Island is stated to have been the largest mass raid yet made by U.S. Army heavy bombers in the Pacific…
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