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Inverell Shire is a local government area in the North West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia adjacent to the Macintyre River and the Gwydir Highway. The mayor of Inverell Shire Council is Cr.
Inverell is a large town in northern New South Wales, Australia, situated on the Macintyre River, close to the Queensland border. It is also the centre of Inverell Shire. Inverell is located on the Gwydir Highway on the western slopes of the Northern Tablelands. It has a temperate climate.
The 2/18th Battalion [Note 2] was raised around Sydney, in June 1940, with its first subunits being formed on 13 July at Wallgrove Camp. [4] Formed as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF) from volunteers for overseas service, the battalion's first commanding officer was Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Varley, [4] a grazier from Inverell, New South Wales, and a World War I veteran ...
After World War II, many of the abandoned Group Settlement farms were taken over by immigrants under a new Soldier Settlement Scheme, the next assisted migration scheme. British newspaper magnate Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe , actively promoted the scheme in its early years through his UK newspapers, especially The Times .
This target was probably erected during World War II for use by SOE agents training at nearby Glasnacardoch House.. The following is an incomplete list of training centres, research and development sites, administrative sites and other establishments used by the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War.
HMAS Inverell, named for the town of Inverell, New South Wales, was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes constructed during World War II, and one of 36 initially manned and commissioned solely by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). [1] After World War II, the corvette was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), where she served from 1952 ...
The Wartime Farm commissioning executives for the BBC are Emma Willis and James Hayes, and the Executive Producer for Lion Television is David Upshal. An associated book by Langlands, Ginn and Goodman—Wartime Farm: Rediscovering the Skills and Spirit of World War II—was published in 2012. [2]
Shortly after selling these to a traveller from Sydney a rush began to search the tin fields around here, Inverell and other nearby areas. [2] The Elsmore mine was the first commercial tin mine in Australia and has produced tin from various alluvial deposits intermittently since 1871.