WIVES OF SOLDIERS
Transport To Australia (Received August 5, 7 p.m.) CANBERRA, August 5. Provided they can obtain passage’on a ship which is in a convoy, women who married Australian servicemen overseas may now come to Australia. The Minister for Repatriation, Mr. Frost, said that the Commonwealth Government would pay the fares of servicemen’s wives under these conditions. About 50 Australian soldiers married while in tbe Middle East. Tbe men have iiow returned to Australia and are anxious to bring their wives home.
The Minister said the same conditions would apply to women who married Australian soldiers, sailors or airmen in Britain and other overseas theatres of war.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 264, 6 August 1942, Page 5
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108WIVES OF SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 264, 6 August 1942, Page 5
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