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Past articles (294 large files)

The Advertiser, Adelaide, South Australia

03/08/1942 (size 490kB) Private casualty advices
03/10/1945 (size 163kB) P.O.W.'s advices
07/06/1947 (size 435kB) P.O.W.'s unusual adventures

Advocate, Burnie, Tasmania

15/06/1940 (size 133kB) Question & answer
18/08/1945 (size 58kB) Died in P.O.W. camp
18/09/1945 (size 133kB) Died in Thailand

Alexandra and Yea Standard and Yarck, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express, Alexandra, Victoria

25/01/1946 (size 1246kB) Ron of Rubicon

The Argus, Melbourne, Victoria

23/02/1934 (size 49kB) Poisoned children recover
10/05/1940 (size 198kB) Appointments of officers
21/05/1940 (size 394kB) Personal
28/05/1940 (size 32kB) Bandsmen wanted
03/06/1940 (size 104kB) Camp comforts : Puckapunyal ready
04/06/1940 (size 131kB) New uses for Pioneers : Specialist unit
15/06/1940 (size 308kB) Let us pay a tribute to public men who have joined up
15/06/1940 (size 115kB) Sport at Puckapunyal
18/06/1940 (size 33kB) Battalion flag
22/06/1940 (size 120kB) Dove grey and blue for bride : Webster - Kinnear
29/06/1940 (size 286kB) Impressed by discipline : P.M. inspects camp
24/08/1940 (size 267kB) 5,000 troops on parade : Lord Gowrie visits Puckapunyal
27/08/1940 (size 376kB) Flag for Battalion
27/09/1940 (size 249kB) Army glee singers
07/09/1940 (size 67kB) Guard drums for Pioneers
05/10/1940 (size 273kB) A.I.F. casualties
07/10/1940 (size 282kB) Country news : Trainees march past
02/11/1940 (size 62kB) Three A.I.F. deaths
02/11/1940 (size 311kB) Weddings : Page Elson-Smith
05/11/1940 (size 121kB) Soldier's death on range : Bullet ricocheted
19/11/1940 (size 87kB) A.I.F. choristers and bandsmen
23/11/1940 (size 382kB) In the sports field
27/11/1940 (size 121kB) Pioneers begin long trek : 16 miles in heat
28/11/1940 (size 80kB) Forty miles completed : Pioneers' long trek
29/11/1940 (size 66kB) Pioneers welcomed at Tatura
30/11/1940 (size 190kB) Town's welcome to marchers : Rest for Pioneers
30/11/1940 (size 79kB) Pioneers' broadcast
02/12/1940 (size 148kB) Pioneers at Shepparton : Tattoo and sports
03/12/1940 (size 50kB) Talkies for soldiers on march
05/12/1940 (size 71kB) March of Pioneers
06/12/1940 (size 60kB) 140 mile march ends
03/01/1941 (size 98kB) Casualty list
24/01/1941 (size 161kB) A.I.F. march through Melbourne
31/01/1941 (size 167kB) A.I.F. sports at Puckapunyal
12/03/1941 (size 359kB) The life of Melbourne : "Pucka Pagans"
27/05/1941 (size 338kB) Personal notes
23/06/1941 (size 309kB) Guns directed from roof : Cool A.I.F. officer
08/07/1941 (size 157kB) Personal notes
07/07/1941 (size 105kB) Personal notes
15/07/1941 (size 152kB) Personal notes
17/07/1941 (size 210kB) Personal notes
18/07/1941 (size 180kB) Personal notes
18/07/1941 (size 657kB) 75 Victorians in A.I.F. casualty lists
23/07/1941 (size 262kB) Personal notes
24/07/1941 (size 303kB) Personal notes
26/07/1941 (size 150kB) Personal notes
31/07/1941 (size 54kB) Personal notes
01/08/1941 (size 180kB) Personal notes
02/08/1941 (size 175kB) Personal notes
05/08/1941 (size 44kB) Personal notes
12/08/1941 (size 83kB) Personal notes
03/12/1941 (size 893kB) Honoured for brave deeds in Syria : Awards to Australians
18/05/1942 (size 288kB) Country news
16/06/1942 (size 216kB) 25 officers named as Jap prisoners : 14 are Victorian
20/06/1942 (size 149kB) Daring deeds of this war
02/07/1942 (size 121kB) Melbourne doctor in Java
13/07/1942 (size 20kB) Service casualty
16/07/1942 (size 60kB) Driver Wilfred Horskins
18/07/1942 (size 110kB) Service casualties
22/07/1942 (size 91kB) Service casualties
23/07/1942 (size 1504kB) Australian Army casualty list
28/07/1942 (size 79kB) Service casualties
08/08/1942 (size 116kB) Service casualties
07/12/1942 (size 191kB) Parties for children of servicemen
27/01/1943 (size 397kB) Victorians in Army casualty list
21/05/1943 (size 394kB) Rationing of milk likely : Service casualties
10/07/1943 (size 888kB) Victorian Army Casualties
25/09/1943 (size 819kB) Service casualties
02/10/1943 (size 940kB) Service casualties
30/10/1943 (size 233kB) Letters : 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion
19/11/1943 (size 358kB) Pioneer's first reunion
11/03/1944 (size 4218kB) Births. Marriages. Deaths on active service. In memoriam (2/2 Pioneer Battalion Women's Auxiliary)
18/03/1944 (size 147kB) Service casualties
17/05/1944 (size 358kB) Airborne troops of Ramu Valley : Maj-Gen Vasey's tribute
27/06/1944 (size 3132kB) Births. Marriages. Deaths on active service. In memoriam
18/08/1944 (size 64kB) Died in prison camp
03/11/1944 (size 83kB) News of war prisoner
13/12/1944 (size 1183kB) Army casualties
11/11/1944 (size 5871kB) Births. Marriages. Deaths on active service. In memoriam
24/02/1945 (size 823kB) Engagements announced
01/03/1945 (size 215kB) M.L.A. who died as P.O.W. "Gave life gladly"
08/03/1945 (size 306kB) Service casualties
10/03/1945 (size 140kB) Torpedoed ship survivor
14/03/1945 (size 55kB) Died of illness
11/06/1945 (size 65kB) Essendon's Town Clerk receives D.S.O.
30/06/1945 (size 80kB) Chaplain's son believed killed
07/07/1945 (size 56kB) P.O.W. believed dead
04/08/1945 (size 248kB) Vacant house seized for family : Furniture passed through window
08/08/1945 (size 56kB) Cobden soldier dies in Burma
03/09/1945 (size 813kB) 28 Victorians in list of freed P.O.W.
05/09/1945 (size 641kB) More evidence of Jap brutality
08/09/1945 (size 604kB) AIF Colonel tortured by Japs : Interrogated on Australia's defences
08/09/1945 (size 323kB) Australian P.O.W.'s in Singapore : Victorian names
11/09/1945 (size 722kB) Prisoners released in Japan
12/09/1945 (size 225kB) More messages from Saigon
14/09/1945 (size 2203kB) Further list of Victorian P.O.W. in Siam
14/09/1945 (size 1412kB) Java radio list of Australian P.O.W.'s and internees
15/09/1945 (size 241kB) Further messages from Saigon
18/09/1945 (size 205kB) More P.O.W.'s recovered
19/09/1945 (size 1080kB) P.O.W.'s remarkable escapes in Nagasaki
20/09/1945 (size 1197kB) List of interstate names
21/09/1945 (size 346kB) More Victorian P.O.W.s safe
21/09/1945 (size 729kB) Victorians due at Darwin : On hospital ship
22/09/1945 (size 439kB) Victorians due at Darwin : On Duntroon
22/09/1945 (size 674kB) West Australian P.O.W.s recovered
25/09/1945 (size 457kB) Burma P.O.W.'s praise R.A.M.C. doctor
25/09/1945 (size 834kB) Risked lives to help sick mates : Cobber spirit of Australian P.O.W.'s
29/09/1945 (size 357kB) Oranje here tomorrow with P.O.W.'s
02/10/1945 (size 598kB) P.O.W.'s on the way home
04/10/1945 (size 67kB) Returning from Japan
04/10/1945 (size 368kB) More P.O.W. leave for home
04/10/1945 (size 314kB) Hospital ship leaves Morotai
08/10/1945 (size 130kB) More Victorians coming home
09/10/1945 (size 240kB) P.O.W.s leave Manilla for Australia
10/10/1945 (size 432kB) 830 more P.O.W.s leave Manilla : On board H.M.S. Formidable
11/10/1945 (size 291kB) More P.O.W.'s from Singapore : On hospital ship Manunda
20/10/1945 (size 579kB) Victorian P.O.W.'s on Moreton Bay
22/10/1945 (size 328kB) When Highland Brigade arrived in Melbourne
24/10/1945 (size 364kB) More P.O.W.s leave Singapore
25/10/1945 (size 57kB) WO Dickson at Fremantle
27/10/1945 (size 445kB) With P.O.W.'s on the way home
02/11/1945 (size 225kB) More P.O.W.s leave Singapore
29/11/1945 (size 939kB) The life of Melbourne : Happy middle age
07/12/1945 (size 205kB) Lost two sons in Amboina
12/12/1945 (size 67kB) P.O.W. leaves estate to orphanage
12/01/1946 (size 265kB) Married by his unit padre
17/01/1946 (size 1333kB) Australian Army casualties
25/01/1946 (size 52kB) 2/2 Pioneer Battalion sports
26/01/1946 (size 352kB) Australia Day holiday : Where to go and what to see
26/01/1946 (size 182kB) New matron for Heidelberg
26/02/1946 (size 4852kB) Meetings, lectures
22/03/1946 (size 57kB) 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Association formed
25/04/1946 (size 2256kB) Men of two wars at reunions : Meetings link First and Second A.I.F.
25/04/1946 (size 465kB) Reunion, 1946
16/08/1946 (size 450kB) Old comrade's column : Memorial window
09/10/1946 (size 280kB) Reunions and meetings
09/10/1946 (size 909kB) The life of Melbourne : Vesta junior's mirror of the day
11/12/1946 (size 145kB) Old comrade : 2/2 Pioneers
23/01/1947 (size 191kB) Old comrade : 2/2 Pioneer picnic
02/04/1947 (size 199kB) Melbourne man married in China
25/04/1947 (size 630kB) Old comrades meet again at ANZAC eve reunions
17/03/1948 (size 70kB) Ex-P.O.W. killed in rifle mishap [note incorrect Germany reference]
27/11/1948 (size 112kB) History of the 2/2 Pioneers
16/02/1950 (size 97kB) Grant for M.L.A.'s memorial?
04/09/1950 (size 191kB) Wedded - then off to Korea
30/06/1952 (size 686kB) Cobbers : It's a good idea
12/07/1952 (size 386kB) Cobbers
11/07/1953 (size 711kB) Men who made the 2/2 a legend
22/07/1953 (size 27kB) Memorial trees
16/11/1954 (size 71kB) 13 Victorians decorated
26/04/1956 (size 725kB) 24,300 - So proudly they marched Heroes' Day

Army News, Darwin, Northern Territory

06/09/1943 (size 2665kB) What is happening at home : Western Australia
04/05/1945 (size 3036kB) Victoria : Advice has been received

The Australian Women's Weekly

07/10/1941 (size 695kB) How Lae battle was won : Corporal tells of 55 mile trek to meet paratroops

Barrier Miner, Broken Hill, New South Wales

13/06/1945 (size 285kB) War injured Colonel retires

Benalla Ensign, Benalla, Victoria

03/01/1941 (size 284kB) Regimental band and concert : Visit to Benalla during week-end
18/07/1941 (size 209kB) Casualties of district soldiers : Lima soldier wounded
12/06/1942 (size 597kB) Private Harold Horsburgh arrives at Benalla
17/09/1943 (size 958kB) Good news of Benalla district soldiers
01/12/1944 (size 154kB) Molyullah soldier believed killed
28/09/1945 (size 272kB) Death on active service
02/11/1945 (size 637kB) Warm welcome to more P.O.W.'s
27/05/1949 (size 127kB) C. P. candidate for Indi : Mr Clive Nason, of South Wangaratta
07/12/1950 (size 52kB) In memoriam

Burra Record, South Australia

07/10/1941 (size 695kB) Y.M.C.A. war work : Letters from abroad

Cairns Post, Cairns, Queensland

13/09/1945 (size 159kB) Town and country
27/09/1945 (size 99kB) Prisoners of war : Reported recovered : Cairns men included
06/12/1945 (size 167kB) Town and country
24/04/1948 (size 363kB) Citizen force commands : Appointments made

Camperdown Chronicle, Victoria

16/02/1935 (size 296kB) Football topics : South Warrnambool
16/06/1942 (size 348kB) Camperdown man mentioned in despatches
23/06/1942 (size 398kB) Personal
24/07/1942 (size 285kB) Former Cobden footballer missing
18/08/1942 (size 76kB) District casualties : Missing
03/11/1942 (size 229kB) Prisoners of war
22/12/1942 (size 79kB) Tribute to fallen soldier
26/03/1943 (size 92kB) Presentation to mother of three fighting sons
21/09/1943 (size 152kB) News of district prisoners of war
19/10/1943 (size 36kB) Prisoners of war
06/07/1945 (size 106kB) News of P.O.W.
11/09/1945 (size 278kB) Personal

The Canberra Times, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

30/11/1943 (size 761kB) Army awards for New Guinea fighting
27/01/1944 (size 287kB) Canberra boys in forward units in Ramu Valley
29/11/1944 (size 113kB) 'Hell-ship' victims carve names on hatch plank
16/02/1945 (size 128kB) More Australians rescued from sunken Jap ship
03/09/1945 (size 1150kB) War prisoners tell of horrors of Japanese camps
23/05/1946 (size 315kB) Jap Major admits charges of cruelty : Blames monsoons for lack of supplies on Burma Rail work
27/06/1946 (size 176kB) Korean guard to die for cruelties
28/12/1946 (size 83kB) Identification of war prisoners difficult
30/12/1954 (size 182kB) Death of Mr. J. A. Boyd

CGA Service Messenger, Melbourne, Victoria

September 1945 (size 156kB) The Balikpapan landing

The Courier Mail, Brisbane, Queensland

23/02/1940 (size 312kB) Army minister rides to camp
27/07/1942 (size 489kB) Roll of honour

The Daily News, Perth, Western Australia

12/09/1945 (size 2405kB) Jungle to joy
22/12/1945 (size 1003kB) Japs face death as coal output slumps

Eltham and Whittlesea Shires Advertiser, Victoria

16/08/1940 (size 527kB) Weddings : N.S.W. bride wears grey : Shelton - Cain
07/11/1941 (size 79kB) Casualty list : Driver J. Perrins

Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania

13/01/1941 (size 48kB) The north : Bishopsbourne
18/09/1943 (size 208kB) War casualties
04/03/1944 (size 1123kB) Deaths
25/05/1944 (size 84kB) Country district news
11/04/1949 (size 145kB) New boys' band conductor

Gippsland Times, Victoria

24/06/1940 (size 130kB) Webster-Kinnear
10/07/1941 (size 99kB) Death notice
14/07/1941 (size 70kB) The war : Casualty list
21/07/1941 (size 358kB) Narrow escape from death : Pte Doultree relates his experiences
09/07/1942 (size 125kB) Personal
08/10/1942 (size 166kB) Personal
10/12/1942 (size 209kB) Personal
02/09/1943 (size 112kB) Personal
16/09/1943 (size 51kB) Personal
02/11/1944 (size 246kB) Prisoners being transferred to Japan : Sale boy missing when ship torpedoed
01/03/1945 (size 136kB) His life for his country : Pte. J. E. E. Brodribb, of Sale
08/03/1945 (size 106kB) Personal
17/09/1945 (size 1090kB) Jottings of Jill
22/09/1947 (size 267kB) In memoriam
01/06/1950 (size 175kB) The Supreme Sacrifice 1939-1945

The Horsham Times, Victoria

07/09/1943 (size 53kB) Prisoner of war

Kalgoorlie Miner, Western Australia

27/11/1945 (size 125kB) Personal

Kilmore Free Press, Victoria

08/08/1940 (size 133kB) Kilmore Shire Council
28/08/1941 (size 261kB) Local soldier killed

The Mail, Adelaide, South Australia

19/10/1940 (size 2116kB) Married last week : Recent wedding

Melbourne Observer, Melbourne, Victoria

14/11/2007 (size 175kB) Cheers to the 2/2 Pioneers (includes 1945 Balikpapan landing article)

The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania

03/09/1945 (size 245kB) Tasmanian prisoners at Saigon
20/11/1945 (size 449kB) Former prisoner of war married at Hobart

Mildura Weekly, Mildura, Victoria

11/04/2008 (size 286kB) A photo that's worth a thousand words... (Part 1)
11/04/2008 (size 247kB) A photo that's worth a thousand words... (Part 2)

Morwell Advertiser, Morwell, Victoria

31/10/1940 (size 189kB) Soldiers' doings
16/01/1941 (size 656kB) Personal news : In town and out
10/07/1941 (size 270kB) Soldier given presentation
22/01/1942 (size 230kB) Cattle killed in the shops : Sapper Gordon Budge views Syrian butchers
26/03/1942 (size 889kB) News of Sapper Gordon Budge
24/09/1942 (size 575kB) In town and out news : Private G. B. Tomlin missing
19/04/1945 (size 224kB) Vale : Private William Gordon Budge
20/12/1945 (size 91kB) K.I.A. in Java : No. VX22828 Sgt. L. F. Ling

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Northern Star, Lismore, New South Wales

19/04/1949 (size 418kB) Washed overboard from launch : Body still missing
21/04/1949 (size 90kB) No trace yet of drowning victim
24/05/1949 (size 553kB) Man washed overboard accidentally

Portland Guardian, Victoria

07/08/1941 (size 106kB) District war casualties
28/08/1941 (size 144kB) Soldiers farewelled
11/09/1941 (size 151kB) Battle of Murdy-Ayoun
11/09/1941 (size 148kB) Murdy-Ayoun
15/06/1942 (size 172kB) Soldier-botanist in jungle
15/07/1943 (size 62kB) Army casualties
27/09/1943 (size 37kB) Prisoner of war
07/10/1943 (size 144kB) Personal notes
22/06/1944 (size 44kB) News of the forces
20/11/1944 (size 26kB) General news
04/10/1945 (size 345kB) Letters from P.O.W.
18/10/1945 (size 100kB) Personal notes
04/08/1947 (size 71kB) Death of prisoner of war

Standard, Frankston, Victoria

28/02/1941 (size 277kB) Talented A.I.F. concert party : 2nd/2nd Pioneer band
17/09/1943 (size 43kB) Two brothers P's.O.W.
03/12/1943 (size 373kB) Message from Roy Dundon : Prisoner of war in Java
10/12/1943 (size 223kB) Personal pars

Sunday Times, Perth, Western Australia

04/11/1945 (size 201kB) 'Unbeaten' team had one loss

Sunshine Advocate, Victoria

18/12/1942 (size 38kB) Prisoner of war

The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, New South Wales

11/07/1941 (size 314kB) Sad episode ending : Syrian Campaign
18/07/1941 (size 318kB) A.I.F. wounded : French treatment praised
01/09/1941 (size 478kB) Last officers released : Captured in Syria
16/06/1942 (size 214kB) Prisoners in Java : Japanese list of A.I.F. men
30/11/1943 (size 626kB) Gallantry in New Guinea : 53 decorations awarded
06/04/1944 (size 600kB) Sydney march by Seventh : Veterans of two campaigns
01/09/1945 (size 120kB) A.I.F. Java force praised
03/09/1945 (size 337kB) Sickness at Singapore
08/09/1945 (size 362kB) Australians' cold courage
08/09/1945 (size 248kB) Brutality and starvation : N.S.W. Colonel's story
14/09/1945 (size 213kB) Men at Singapore surrender
17/09/1945 (size 682kB) In Siam : Eighth list
24/09/1945 (size 404kB) First A.I.F. men back from camps in Java
25/09/1945 (size 352kB) Coming by H.M.S. Ruler : 52 Australians
25/09/1945 (size 1568kB) More names of liberated P.O.W.s : Japan camp list
06/10/1945 (size 195kB) Recovered in Japan : More A.I.F. free
13/10/1945 (size 95kB) Due by air today
28/06/1947 (size 504kB) An epic of bad luck
15/08/1953 (size 569kB) Reviews in brief : The story of the 2/2 Pioneer Battalion

The West Australian, Perth, Western Australia

11/10/1945 (size 589kB) Personal
05/11/1945 (size 55kB) Returned P.O.W.
08/11/1945 (size 55kB) Due home tomorrow
12/08/1947 (size 509kB) The Nagasaki bomb : Experiences of three W.A. soldiers
19/04/1949 (size 101kB) River bar drowning

Werribee Shire Banner, Melbourne, Victoria

07/08/1941 (size 1462kB) Pte. L. Tardrew reported killed in action

Western Mail, Perth, Western Australia

28/05/1942 (size 179kB) This is not Dorothy Lamour
10/12/1942 (size 259kB) Army competition

Williamstown Chronicle, Melbourne, Victoria

09/01/1942 (size 304kB) Heroism honored
03/03/1944 (size 209kB) Band notes

Worker, Brisbane, Queensland

10/09/1945 (size 321kB) Borneo : Building of prisoner-of-war cages