War Office Official Honoured
Colonel Sir Edward Willis Duncan Ward, K.C.V.O., one of the new barenets, entered the Army in 1874 and became a major in the Army Service Corps in 1885…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1914
860 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 43
Against War. Democrats Protest
The democracies of five nations were represented at an international Labour and Socialistic demonstration at Kingsway Hall on Saturday evening (says…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →War a Breakdown of Reason
It cannot be too steadily remembered that every farm of war, international civil, or industrial, is a breakdown of reason, a lamentable failure of the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Catch Soldiers Young
I have always been an ardent advocate of the principle that youths and boys who are destined to become officers in the Army should commence a special…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →War Office Change
Sir Reginald Herbert Brade, K.C.B., who has been appointed secretary to the War, Office, and of the Army Council in succession to Colonel Sir Edward Ward,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Unifying War
The late war in Tripoli has vitalised and unifield Italy more in two years than Cubits, Futurists, or other "ists" have been able to do in fifty years…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →First Aid in War
Lieutenant-Colonel J.D.F. Donegan, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, gave some interesting particulars, in a lecture at the Royal United Service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier, Engineer and Barrister
At the age of 50 Major. W. A. J. O'Meara, who retired in 1912 from the position of engineer in chief to the Post office, is entering on a new career at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Europe's Unrest. Russia Ready for War. Is Austria the Objective. London
A semi-official statement in the "Norddeutscher Allgemeine Zietung" ridicules the threat of the Russian "Bourse Gazette" that in the event of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Military Forecast. War Next Year. Berlin
Colonel Frobenius has issued a pamphlet in which he alleges that Britain is crouching for an attack on Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War of Tongues
Germany and England would be entitled to be just as proud, and even more proud, if they decided to cease belabouring each other with their tongues…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Peace or War
It is a little curious that there should happen to be in Melbourne at the same time one of the most distinguished soldiers in the British Army, and an…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Soldier of the Empire
Major-General George Macaulay Kirkpatrick, who has completed his term as Inspector-General of the Military Forces of Australia, is a son of the late Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →At the War Office. Stormy Scenes. London
Another account states that when General Gough and Colonels M'Ewan and Parker reached the War Office there were stormy scenes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mexican War. a Fierce Battle. Federal Troops Retreat. Mexico
General Villa, the rebel leader, with 12,000 troops, has fought a bloody battle in the neighbourhood of Gomez Pallacio, a village near Torreon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Office Official. Calls on Ulster Leader. London
Major-General Sir Cecil Macready, Director of Personal Services at the War Office, whom the office sent to Belfast to confer with Count Gleichen, commanding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Army Trouble. War Minister Resigns. Resignation Not Accepted. Sharp Debate in the Commons London
Colonel Seely, the Secretary of State for War, resigned from the Cabinet, but his resignation was not accepted. A White Paper states that on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Against Ulster. Will Not Be Tolerated. London
Mr. R. Blatchford, the editor and proprietor of "The Clarion," writes that the Government thought that if they blew their trumpets loud enough…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Correspondents
One of the heroes of Ladysmith General Sir an Hamilton, will, in the course of a few weeks, reach New Zealand. He will be warmly welcomed by everyone who…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mexican War. Guillotine for Federals. Juarez
General Guiterrez, whose female relatives were carried off by the Federals, has erected a guillotine, which is intended for any federals he may…
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