Soldiers' League Party for Children SINGLETON
At the monthly meeting of the Singleton sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League held last night, it was decided to hold a Xmas…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1937
735 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 36 of 37
Soldiers Will Provide Happy Xmas Party for Children
The children's "patron saint" of the Yuletide season, Father Christmas, is to them an everlasting source of joy, and something rather unique…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Spanish War Field Guns for Rebels GIBRALTAR, December 4
A Loyalist Government agency reports that a convey of rebel merchantmen, escorted by three Italian destroyers and two German submarines, unloaded at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Checked By French Soldiers Attempt to Bomb Railway Used by British Officials
Considerable tension exists in the International Settlement following the Japanese victory march at the week-end. Serious clashes in the French Concession were narrowly averted on Saturday and again yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Memorial Hall Kurri Returned Soldiers Official, Opening Kurri Kurri
More than 200 members attended the annual reunion of the Kurri Kurri subbranch of the Returned Soldiers' League held In the newly constructed Memorial…
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A special men's card night will be held on Friday next, December 10, under the auspices of the Maltland District Roturued Socidiers and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Horrors of War Bombs on Shanghai Surgeon Tolls
The "Manchester Guardian" was given permission to quote extracts from a letter describing the effects of bombing in…
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A war bridge evening will be conducted by the West Maitland Parents and Citizens' Association in the boys' school, Elgin-street, on Tuesday,…
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Under the auspices of the West Maitland Parents and Citizens' Association a war bridge evening will be held at the Boys' School. Elgin…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →St. Dunstan's War-Blinded Men Work Praised
The twenty-second annual rereport of St. Dunstan's, just issued, contains some interesting facts about the work which that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Food From Forests What Trees Will Do in War Time
In the event of war, Britain's forests could not only supply fuel, but foods and clothes as well, for the entire population for several months…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Denman News Returned Soldiers
The Denman sub-branch will give soldiers' children their usual Xmas. tree. This decision was made at a meeting of members, and the result is…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Soldier Found Dead Darwin
The body of Sergeant Alexander M. Bourke, 27, of the local garrison, formerly of Victoria, was found at the barracks. His threat and wrists had been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →300 Chinese Soldiers Trapped (Australian Press Assn. Message.) NANKING
Three hundred Chinese soldiers were trapped by Japanese on a hilltop outside Nanking and mowed down with machine guns, after a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"War" Toys
With the object of enforcing a boy-coot on "war" toys, a petition was displayed for signatures at a public meeting in the Newcastle Town Hall last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boy Wounded Sequel in Court SYDNEY
William Stewart, 70, curator of the Sydney Cricket Ground, was to-day, at the Central Court, remanded on ball of £100 until January 5 on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Christmas Tree Cessnock Soldiers' League CESSNOCK
The annual Christmas tree function of the Cessnock sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League will be held in the Parish Hall to-morrow night About £50 has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Far Extern Situation Is Loaded with Dynamite. Are Japanese Aiming to Bring About a World War?
THE SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST is loaded With dynamite so far as the rest world is concerned. Hardly a day passed but what the Japs perpetrate an outrage of some kind against some neutral power…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Annual Xmas Tree Returned Soldiers' Children
Nearly 250 children were presented with gifts at the Ceesnock Returned Soldiers' annual Xmas tree function held in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fierce Fighting Renewed in Spanish War-zone Salamanca, December 19
The rebels claim they have recovered the initiatives on tho Teruel front. They assert that their 'planes inflicted heavy losses on the Loyalists, and the infantry, counter-attacking, had thrown back the defenders on the Teruol-Saragossn road…
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