For six hours 20 A.I.F. commandos fought off 500 Japanese who were storming the Dilli aerodrome in Portuguese Timor early on February 20. For the loss of three men, they killed at least 100 Japanese ...
Article : 138 wordsOn December 17, 1941, the Commandos landed west of Dilli, [?]eat of the Portuguese Administration. A section was posted to ...
Article : 504 wordsThe Japanese retired from this area on April 26, and on May 12 the Australians carried the fight to Dilli, where 3,000 Japanese ...
Article : 455 wordsFor long weeks after the Japanese landed at Dilli on February 19 nothing was heard in Australia of the commandos. ...
Article : 591 wordsLieutenant N. J. Wagener, formerly assistant prosecutor, of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., now on active service with the U.S. Navy, was given a seat ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. A. R. Penfold, curator of the Sydney Technological Museum, has been appointed Deputy Director for New South Wales of the Scientific ...
Article : 40 wordsMessrs. J. W. Shand, F. W. Kitto, and K. R. T. Reynolds, have been appointed King's Counsel by the New South Wales Executive Council. Mr. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe huge crowd which congregated at King's Cross last night to welcome the New Year. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 22 wordsAwards have been made to two members of the Australian commando force operating in Timor, the Minister for the ...
Article : 204 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, announced to-night that the King had approved of awards to ...
Article : 380 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Minister for Air, Mr. Drakeford, to-day announced the latest list of Australian airmen abroad who ...
Article : 302 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The award of a Military Medal to a New Guinea native sergeant was announced by the Governor-General. Lord Gowrie, ...
Article : 90 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—At a joint meeting of representatives of the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures, the Melbourne ...
Article : 214 wordsLieutenant-General V. A. H. Sturdee (left) who has been made a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and Lieutenant-Commander F. W. Bayldon, of Darling Point, who has received the M.B.E. in the New Year Honours awards. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 44 wordsTwo brothers were drowned in Queensland yesterday and a girl lost her life in a flooded creek at South Grafton. ...
Article : 117 wordsThe interstate Labour conference to open in Melbourne next week will be asked by a number of Sydney unions not to give the Prime ...
Article : 81 wordsKing's Cross, the principal centre of New Year celebrations, ushered in 1943 with less hilarity than in former years. ...
Article : 396 wordsYaralla was responsible for an impressive trial on the course proper at Victoria Park yesterday morning, when the going ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 305 wordsThe final game of the U.S.A. football season will be broadcast throughout Australia at 6 p.m. Sydney time, on Sunday. This match, for the east v west ...
Article : 90 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 29 (A.A.P.).—Edouare Segura won the Sugar Bowl singles championship, beating Earl Bartlett, of Tulane University. Charles Mattman, of New York, and ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 1 Jan 1943, Page 7
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