HUNDREDS of prisoners captured at El Alamein were killed and wounded when their prison ship was torpedoed off the coast of Greece, said Pte. Bob Oldes, of Maryborough, one of the 45 ex-prisoners of war who reached Brisbane yesterday. ...
Article : 370 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate "misuse of public funds" was urged by ...
Article : 383 wordsFIRST man the Acting Premier (Mr. Hanlon) met when he welcomed the former prisoners of war at Clapham Junction ...
Article : 237 wordsDense crowds surged round the cars carrying Queensland soldiers repatriated from German prisoner of war camps as they drove in procession through the city yesterday. It was a spontaneous welcome which made the men feel that it was good to be back. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 97 wordsLieut. Norman Wellard knew it was good to be home again when he was warmly by his mother and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 78 words"THE Germans really hated us Aussies," said Sheil, "because they could not discipline us. "They exceeded all limits to try to make us knuckle down ...
Article : 377 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Two separate drives by troops of the Third Australian Division in Southern Bougainville have cut the Buin Road to slice off a huge area of Jap gardens and completely disrupt defences east of the Hari River. ...
Article : 555 wordsMr. F. W. Bulcock, Federal Director-General of Agriculture, and Former Queensland Agriculture Minister, does not contemplate ...
Article : 148 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday—Events reading up to the moving in the Senate of an amendment to the Re-establishment and Employment Bill ...
Article : 406 wordsTHE 45 ex-prisoners-of-war received a grand welcome when they were driven through Brisbane streets yesterday. A dense crowd near the Post Office surged or to the roadway, and the cars had difficulty in passing. ...
Article : 371 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—A Bill authorising an increase in old age and invalid pensions by 5/6 to 32/6 a week from ...
Article : 222 wordsArrangements for the transfer of the returned war prisoners from Clapham Junction station to the Leave and Transit Depot at ...
Article : 269 wordsCowpeas being offered for sale as seed for sowing would be tested by the Agriculture Department, the Agriculture Minister ...
Article : 106 wordsMuch is being said and written about release of men from the services. But who wants to leave the ...
Article : 456 wordsLISMORE, Tuesday.—The wild shopping rush in Lismore was repeated to-day when thousands of country people flocked to town for ...
Article : 215 wordsTHE Australian Automobile Association committee of management has asked the Commonwealth Regulations Advisory Committee to lift several war-time restrictions on motoring. ...
Article : 236 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Angry scenes developed in the Senate to-day, when Opposition members vainly attempted to amend the ...
Article : 295 wordsSOON after hearing that their 26-year-old son, Lieut. A. R. Doneley, A.I.F., had been awarded the Military Cross, Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Doneley (Kangaroo Point) last Saturday received word that he had been killed in New ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 418 wordsProposals to extend pasteurised treatment of milk and cream in Queensland is indicated in five applications to be preliminarily ...
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Advertising : 195 words[?] was welcomed home by his father and mother after being a prisoner of the Germans. Father and son released that they met again on the day and date that Mr. Masters Snr. returned from the lost war. Mr. Masters served with the merchant marine in this war. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Wed 20 Jun 1945, Page 3
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