Church Notes in Gloucester Reflects War and Faith
Presbyterian services announced with Rev. Dr. Reid to conduct Sunday worships at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Rememberance service in the evening. Dr. Reid guest of Mrs. Higgins at Faulkland. All Saints Day observed at St. Pauls with Holy Communion and prayers for armed forces. Welcome to Burkett and Fenning families arriving in Gloucester.
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Gloucester
Presbyterian Church of Australia
V.a.'s
Invergordon
Rawdon Vale
Bowman Farm
D. Glyn Jones
Church OF England
St. Paul's
Burkett
Wingen
Scone
Fenning
Craven
J. A. Smith
Bank Note Mystery Ends in £30000 Loss to Bank
A Bank of England director hid £30000 in a note for an estate purchase. The note vanished from a mantle, and after decades an unknown bearer presented it for payment, forcing the bank to pay. An architect later found the note in a chimney crevice, using the tale to justify prior theft.
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Bank of England
Murder charge against Henry Secombe in NSW case
Henry Bacon Secombe aged 16 is committed to stand trial at Central Police Court on 22 November for the murder of Mrs. Mary Pritchard near Wauchope. The coroner found death from cerebral concussion after blows with a piece of wood. Pritchard, 52, mother of nine, was found dead on a creek bank October 6. A detective Serf Barber quoted Secombe’s alleged statement about a message to Pritchard and the ensuing struggle.
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Henry Bacon Secombe
Central Police Court
Mary Pritchard
Wauchope
Pritchard
Fourth Liberty Loan National Savings Stamp rollout
The 5 shilling National Savings Stamp will be sold at Savings Banks and Post Offices for the Fourth Liberty Loan, needing 750000 subscribers. Booklets of forty stamps can pay £10 war bonds, or eight-stamp sheets for £10 deposits. Stamps aim to aid small subscribers and mobile workers with flexible deposits. The scheme runs all year, with advances possible to future loans. Commonwealth Loans Director Banfield notes the stamp encourages small subscribers amid many wage earners yet to meet loan obligations.
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Commonwealth Loans
Banfield
We Never Forget by One of the Boys
A wartime ballad urging readers to honor Australian soldiers from New Guinea and Kokoda. It recalls comfort at home contrasted with the cost to troops, including jungle fighting, wounds, and crosses, urging fairness toward those who served against the Japanese.
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Kokoda
New Guinea
Bible in My Pocket After Bullet Wound
A U S Army lieutenant writes to his sister in Pennsylvania about a bullet piercing his Bible and Bible verses sustaining him. He recalls the hole stopping in Psalm 91 and feeling uplifted, thanking God. The note also reports Brigadier Laycock becoming Chief of Combined Operations acting as major general, succeeding Mountbatten in Southeast Asia.
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U.S Army
Pennsylvania
Laycock
New South Wales
Lord Laura Mountbatten
South East Asia
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E. Young
Phone 7
C. J. Hogan
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Cowper St., Gloucester
Thomas Cowan , CO
Street & Parish, Pty., Ltd
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Queen Street
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