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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
920 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 20 of 46
From the viewpoint of attendance, the "Digges" dinner on Anzac Day left nothing to be desired. Nor was there lacking sufficient for them all to eat and drink. In this regard the Ladies' Auxiliary and their helpers deserve the greatest credit. It was a night of real…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An appeal for £25.000 has been launched for the building of a comfortable club rooms in Sydney, for the thousands, of ex-servicemen in New…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SINGLETON, Friday.—At a meeting of the Returned Soldiers Ladies’ Auxiliary held last night, it was stated that 2000 English…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PARKES, Friday. — A soldier was killed and another injured when a jeep overturned 10 miles from Parkes last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A soldier was killed and another injured when a jeep overturned 10 miles from Parkes last night. The jeep was being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BERLIN (Assoc. Press) Many of the airfields from which the German air force [?]nated the [?] of Europe for two years will be devoted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NUREMBERG (Associa. Press) —The Dutch are demanding International war crimes trials for the destruction of Rotterdam…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINGLETON: The president of the Singleton branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League (Mr. A. C. William) addressed members of the Ladies’ Auxiliary on the aims and objects of the League. In the course of his remarks he said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Following the commemoration service the ex-servicemen assembled at the Central Hotel and proceeded with the Anzac Dinner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anzac Day was celebrated in Stroud with all the usual enthusiasm and fervour of former days. It was regretted that no women's patriotic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 7 p.m. on Anzac Day a large congregation attended the Commemoration Service. The service was conducted by the Rector (Rev. S. C…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Anzac Day a United Service was held at the Monument, Clarence Town, when tribute was paid to the memory of the men and women who laid down…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, May 6.—The latest casualty figures resulting from the Jewish terrorist raid on the Acre prison in Palestine are officially added up to the total of 16 dead and 20 wouned. The dead were six Jewish terrorists, who wore stolen British…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK—(Associated Press)—New York’s famous skyline is sprouting its first new skyscrapers since the completion of Rockefeller Centre before the war. The did of reventing is etch[?] through the city’s streets,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An important meeting of the local sub-branch of the R.S.L. will be held in the Soldiers' Clubroom at 8 p.m. on Friday next, when a vote will be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GENEVA (Illinois), May 6. — An 18-year-old Australian war bride, Mrs. Shirley Sawickas, wife of Leonard Sawickas, of Geneva,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, May 7.—Britain’s vast debts owed to her wartime allies are an unsupportable, unreal and unjust burden which must be very substantially scaled down. This blunt warning was issued by the Chancellor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, May 6.—A British Military Court imposed a sentence of death by shooting on Field-Marshal Albert von Kesselring,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Minister for the Army, Mr Chambers, said, in the House of Representatives to-day, that the Commonwealth Government had nothing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OKLAHOMA CITY, May 8.—State Senator Tom Anglin, aged 63 was shot in the back on the floor of Senate yesterday afternoon. Senator Tom Finney said that Repare Jimmie Scott fired the shot…
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