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The wars & local soldiers, 1943

14,982 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250

Startling Delinquency Increase Children Run Wild As War Relaxes Discipline

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1943 · page 7

Child delinquency in Sydney last year increased probably 40 per cent, compared with pre-war years. Most alarming increase was in the number of girls aged 15 to 18 picked up for moral offences…

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U.S. at War Wartime Living Little Citizen, What Next?

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 January 1943 · page 16

Food Administrator Claude Wickard picked a logical but startling time. Right after dinner last Sunday…

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Women War Work .. Orders of the Day Lady Wakehurst Opens New Red Cross Home

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1943 · page 8

Mr. Wilfrid Johnson, speaking at the opening of "Berida," the new Red Cross convalescent home at Bowral, yesterday, said that although it was originally planned to take…

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Part Of Soldiers' Hostel Ready Soon

Truth · Sunday 3 January 1943 · page 15

PART of the new Soldiers' Hostel in Railway Square will be ready for occupation at an early date, the G.O.C., N.S.W. Lines of…

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3 Soldiers Drown On Manoeuvres Glen Innes

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1943 · page 3

THREE soldiers were drowned crossing a flooded ford in military manoeuvres last night. The men, all Queenslanders, were LCpl. Morris Hoare…

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Club Plan For Soldiers

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1943 · page 5

With Sydney's new soldiers' hostel almost an accomplished fact, the Returned Soldiers' League…

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N.g. Soldiers Say Badges Were Torn Off

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1943 · page 7

A MILITARY inquiry is being made into allegations that members of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles in Sydney have had their NGVR badges torn from their shoulder straps by members of the…

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Soldiers' Art for Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 January 1943 · page 5

Pictures by artists in the services and munition factories are being collected for exhibition in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide…

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Swam flood to enlist--rejected

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 January 1943 · page 4

BRISBANE, Sat.--James Crawford, of Kihee Station, Eromanga, swam a swollen river walked 30 miles, and…

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"Three Days and Nights of Hell" US sailors adrift in the Solomons had a nightmare fight for life with sharks. "The Sunday Sun" War Correspondent with the US Navy in the South Pacific

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1943 · page 4

AN American warship on patrol in the Solomons area a few weeks ago stumbled across an American naval tug with a large barge, laden with petrol…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 10

American Red Cross worker, recently arrived in Australia, JEAN VIVIEN DE LONG, whose husband was lost at…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 10

American Red Cross worker, recently arrived in Australia, JEAN VIVIEN DE LONG, whose husband was lost at…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 10

American Red Cross worker, recently arrived in Australia, JEAN VIVIEN DE LONG, whose husband was lost at…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 10

American Red Cross worker, recently arrived in Australia, JEAN VIVIEN DE LONG, whose husband was lost at…

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War-time Meals

The Sun · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 5

"Woman's" cookery course is designed specially to help those interested in serving nourishing wartime meals Private lessons…

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Bigger Canberra After War

The Sun · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday.--Expansion that will cost many millions of pounds is contemplated for Canberra as an urgent post-war task. A city of 20,000 people is envisaged in plans now being…

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Tax Deduction War Precautions Expense

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 2

It is reported from Canberra that expenditure incurred during the year ended June 30, 1942, in precautions against enemy raids,…

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War Hysteria As Vice Stimulus

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Sunday.--War hysterical girls of 14 to 18 are responsible for a big increase in juvenile vice, the Office of Defence of Health says…

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For War Prisoners in Japan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 3

The Australian Red Cross Headquarters in Melbourne has received a cable from the International Red Cross headquarters at Geneva advising that…

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Britain Tightens Up War Work

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.).--Tightening up of efficiency of both management and labor is the aim of two new appointments to the British Production…

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