Interesting War Notes. Paying Calls in Russia
Town life in Russia is as different as an be from life in the country districts. One curious custom is tho after-dinner call. People do not call on their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mid North Coast · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1916
1,442 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 10 of 73
The Big War. Violent Fighting. British Trench Taken. Sydney
Heavy fighting continues on the Western front. After a heavy bombardment on the Ypres salient south of Hooge the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The Christian Attitude in Connection with the War." Notes on a Sermon by Major Lee
"Ye have heard "that it hath been said an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth But I say unto you That ye resist not evil, but whosoever shall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brave Soldier's Deeds. Worthy of Victoria Gross
"I want to tell yon of the bravest man I saw at the front," said a private of the 2nd Battalion, who returned to Sydney recently, amongst a batch of sick and wounded. " I never knew his name…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers' Letters
THE following are extracts from letters written by Private Harry Nicholl to his parents in West Port Macquarie:— We have moved from Heliopolis to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Carpet Slippers for Soldiers
A suba[?]lern in the field suggests that people at home who are at a loss to know what to send the soldiers should make carpet slippers. He…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Mothers and Compulsion. "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier."
I am a British mother whose son is fighting for his country. My boy is an only son. War look him from me just when he was able to help to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rioting. Soldiers on Strike
At breakfast-time on Monday about 5000 troops of the Australian Imperial Forces, camped at Casula, near Liverapool refused duty and demanded the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court-Martial. Soldier Charged with Desertion. a Remarkable Story
A District Court-martial was held last week at Victoria Barracks, when Private Norman Stacy-Duke, alias Carl Conrad Maurice, 22, of the A.I.F., was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The War
The Russian are straining every nerve to capture Kiamil Pasha's army in Armenia, and the enemy is shedding guns animation and equipment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. Day by Day
Wedensday.—For the past week violent artillery duels, followed by infantry actions, have been in progress in the Dvina-Riga front; but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest War Cables. Monday, 8.20 a.m
A German report states that the British attempts to recapture positions at Ypres were repulsed with bloody losses…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Big War. Fall of Erzerum. Allies Greatest Triumph. Masterly Russian, Strategy. London
Though the tidings of the capture of Erzerum by the Russians has been received without any flagwaving in the Entente countries, there is a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Soldier's Appreciation
Private Elliott Robson, writing from the Convalescent Hospital, Heliopolis, to his brother, Mr. R. Robson, manager of Toorooka Factory, says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Finance
The House of Commons has agreed to a new war vote of £430,000,000. This brings the total credits since the outbreak of the war, to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cost of the War
Speaking in the House of Commons Mr. Asquith is reported to have said there was no propect of a reduction in the cost of war of £5,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Well in Hand
Mr. Bonar Law, Secretary of State for the Colonies, gave an interview to a representative of the "New York Times," who says that the Minister is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest War News. London
Thirty naked charred corpses were found in the wreckage of a Zeppelin destroyed by French guns. It is believed this makes the twenty-seventh…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Service Committee and Shire Council
From the instructions issued by the Defence Department, it would appear that a considerable amount of responsibility rests upon the Shire Councils…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Tanned Sheepskins for our Soldiers
The season for supplying vests to the men at the front being over and the inflow of subscriptions since Christmas not warranting the…
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