Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← The wars & local soldiers, all years

Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1919

3,332 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 167

Benzine Explosion. Soldiers Killed and Injured. (Australian Gable Assn. Message.) London, Thursday Night

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 2

An explosion of a truck load of benzine at Athea railway station, Belgium, killed six British soldiers and injured many British and French soldiers…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Singleton Argus Saturday, January 18th. Local and General News Soldiers Dependents Allowances

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 2

A circular has been issued stating that in the ease of soldiers' widows and other dependents who have been drawing rental allowance from the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Singleton Soldier Honored

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 2

Mr and Mrs W. Tworney, of GeorgeStreet, have received a Base Records Office message and a letter from General Rawlinson, commanding the Fourth…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Returned Soldiers' Threat. a Big Order. (By Telegraph.) Perth

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 2

The Returned Solders' Association has carried a resolution demanding the immediate reduction of house rent and the cost of living, failing which this…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Presentation and Welcome Home Committee

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 January 1919 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Homeville, Telarah, and Farley Presentation and Welcome Home Committee was held in Victoria Hall, when a report was submitted by the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

War Consumptives. Problem to Be Solved

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 January 1919 · page 2

Great Britain is today faced with an exceedingly difficult problem—that of the hundred thousand officers and men discharged from the Navy and Army owing to…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Returned Sailors and Soldiers. Imperial League of Australia. Presidents Appeal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 January 1919 · page 2

Lieut.-Colonel W.K. Bolton, C.B.E., president of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia, is issuing the following appeal to all returned sailors and…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Soldier Returning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 January 1919 · page 4

Pte. Robert Kerr, son of Mr. Harry Kerr, of West Maitland, is expected home by the train arriving at 8.15 this evening. Mrs. John Hayes, of 116 East Maitland road,…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Soldier Returning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 January 1919 · page 4

Mrs.J. Mullard, of South Maitland, has received word that her brother, Private M.E. O'Neill, will be returning to Maitland tomorrow (Tuesday) evening…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Welcome Home to Returning Soldiers. Public Meeting

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 3

The adjourned public meeting, called for the purpose of making arrangements for suitably welcoming home returning soldiers, was…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Another Anzac Returns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 6

Private Robert Kerr; an Anzee, son of Mr. Harry Kerr of West Maitland returned home last evening by the North-Westmail, which arrived about 8,15. A large crowd…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

When War Ceased

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 3

Corporal Curl Street, Gloucester, writes home to his dad, under date of 11th November, 1918:—We have just received the long looked for and…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Anzac Ned Kelly. Paris Cafe "Stuck Up." London, Sunday night

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 5

Paris message states that four Anzacs with a negro entered a cafe at Bagnolet, a suburb of Paris. The Aegro covered the landlord with a revolver while the soldiers…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Late War News London

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 2

An Australian Press Association message from Paris says the French Foreign Minister declares that the inclusion of an Australian…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Very Latest War News Sydney

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 2

The King's youngest son is dead. Reuter's Paris correspondent states that the Supremo Food Council has decided that eighty millions sterling…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Pacific Possibility of New War Suggested

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 2

Now York, Saturday.—Mr Corl Ackerman, the New York Times" correspondent, at Fokin, interviewed Housu-Shichang (the president of Northern…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Emigration of Soldiers. Australian Methods Castigated. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 4

Mr. Euston states that he has addressed large meetings of soldiers and found them intensely interested in Australia, but the absence of definite information regarding cost…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Soldier Returning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 6

Mrs. Walson, of the Horseshoe Bend, has received advice from Base Records to the effect that her son, Pte. V. B. Watson, Of the 34th Battalion a returning on the…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Settling Soldiers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 2

Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Lauds, visited Maitland on Friday last, and addressed an important meeting of representatives of…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Attacked by Shark. Heroic Help by a Soldier

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 4

Further evidence of the prevalence and daring of sharks along the coast was afforded at Newcastle on Friday afternoon, when one of the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →