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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1942

314 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 16

Killed After Funeral

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 18 April 1942 · page 4

LONDON: When a friend returned from a funeral too late to catch a train home. Ronald Wheeler, 26-year-old AFS man of…

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Obituary Mr. L. C. McGUINNESS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1942 · page 4

Mr. Leslie Claude McGuinness, of Excelsior-parade, Toronto, who died at the age of 45, was the eldest of a family of 16. He was born at…

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Late Mr. W. M. Coverdale

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 April 1942 · page 2

The funeral of the late Mr. W. M. Coverdale, a former manager of the Bank of Australasia in Newcastle, left Newcastle…

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Death of Mr. W. M. Coverdale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1942 · page 2

Mr. William Miles Coverdale, of Mayfield. died yesterday. He was 77. Mr. Coverdale was manager of the…

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Obituary Mr. T. Warterton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1942 · page 5

Mr. Thomas Warterton, who died at his residence, 113 Frederick-street, Merewether, was well known in Newcastle and also at Broken Hill. He…

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Death of Prominent Golf Writer Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 4

Following a short illness, the death has occurred of Mr. Thomas Tombleson, 71, known to thousands of golfers as…

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Obituary Mr. W. M. Coverdale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 4

The funeral of Mr. W. M. Coverdale, a former manager of the Bank of Australasia, took place yesterday afternoon to the Beresfield…

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Last Days and Death of Bataan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 4

The last days and nights and the death of Bataan in the Philippines—small in area but immense in military history—are described in the following article by Frank Hewlett, United Press correspondent who escaped from…

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Late Mrs. Mulvey

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 6

The funeral of Mrs. Myra Elizabeth Mulvey, one of Newcastle's best known patriotic and charitable workers, will take place this…

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Cathedral Memorial Service For Late Mrs. Mulvey

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 4

Women's organisations were well represented at a memorial service for the late Mrs. Myra Elizabeth Mulvey at the…

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Obituary Mr. T. J. Mason

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 4

The funeral of Mr. Thomas James Mason left the home in Oxley-road. Waratah, for the Methodist Cemetery, Sandgate. Pall-bearers were…

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Obituary Mr. W. Hetherington

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1942 · page 6

The late Mr. William Hetherington, of Islington, had been employed for 20 years as a linesman in the electrical branch of the Railway…

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Late Mr. A. Ingham

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 April 1942 · page 2

Many interests of the community were represented in the large attendance at the funeral of the late Mr. A. E. Ingham, which left…

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Death of Hero of Romani

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 April 1942 · page 1

CAPE TOWN. Sunday. (AAP) —The death has occurred in Natal within three days of his 82nd birthday of Brigadier J. R…

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Obituary Mr. A. E. Ingham

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 April 1942 · page 4

Mr. Allison Edward Ingham, of Maitland-road, Mayfield, died suddenly at his home on Saturday afternoon. He had been in his usual…

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Death of Mr. Theodore Fink

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 April 1942 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Mr. Theodore Fink, Chairman of Directors of the Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., died at the week-end. He was…

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Obituary Mrs. M. A. Brown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 April 1942 · page 4

An old resident of Raymond Terrace, Mrs. Mary Ann Brown, died at her home in William-street, Raymond Terrace, on April 25. Mrs…

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War Correspondent's Funeral

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 May 1942 · page 1

(From F. R. Peterson at General) Headquarters of the South-west Pacific).—Thirty American. British and Australian war…

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Joe Louis at Manager's Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 May 1942 · page 8

NEW YORK, April 30.—Jack Blackburn, manager of Joe Louis, was buried yesterday. Louis attended in uniform as a pallbearer. Cab Calloway, famous…

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Obituary Mr. J. K. Macdougall, Sen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 May 1942 · page 4

Mr. James K. MacDougall, sen., who died at Cliveden, East Melbourne, recently, was associated with the industries of Newcastle some…

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