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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

1,979 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 99

Death of Soldiers. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 February 1915 · page 5

The deaths of the following soldiers is announced:— Private Horace Utting Fordham, II Company, 10th battalion, from smallpox,…

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Wounded and a Prisoner

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 5

Major Bates Grimston Van de Weyer, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, who is wounded and a prisoner of war, is the son of Mr. Victor W. B. Van de Weyer. Major…

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Exchange of Wounded. the Work Begins. Amsterdam

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 5

The Zealand Company's boats start to-day transporting English and German [?]ously wounded, who are being exchanged…

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War Against Neutrals. America's Attitude. Copenhagen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 5

The Kaiser has returned to the East [?] front. He has invited Mr. Ger[?] the American Ambassador, to a conference at his eastern headquarters…

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The War. German Attack in Alsace Region. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 5

The following communique was issued yesterday:— The enemy bombarded Rheims, Ypres, Nicuport, and the trenches on the dune,…

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"Great War."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 8

Even at the expense of constant reiteration, it cannot be too strongly impressed upon all the people of the British Empire that the present is such a war as the…

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Horrors of War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 9

The Rotterdam correspondent of the " Daily Telegraph " states that Germany has been the foremost exponent of the doctrine that war is the great…

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The Lighter Side. Humorist's War Diary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 8

Mr. Walter Emanuel, of the staff of London "Punch," contributes to the "'Weekly Scotsman"' a diary of the war, from which the following are extracts:—…

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German Socialists. Support the War. Amsterdam

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 5

A Berlin telegram states that a meeting of Socialists decided not to support [?] peace movement until Germany was [?] on at least one front…

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The War. Attack on the British Germans Defeated, Dunkirk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 5

The Germans on Sunday morning throw a column into the British position before Guinchy, near La Bassee. The massed attackers never got to our…

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Cost of the War. Position of the Allies. Their Resources Ample. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 5

Mr. Lloyd-George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was received with cheers, stated in the House of Commons yesterday day that the Allies' expenditure on the…

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Finances of the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1915 · page 4

The Alliance between Britain, France, and Russia is the most powerful that the world has known. This is not only because these Powers…

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The War. the Allies Advancing After Serious Fighting. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1915 · page 5

The latest communique states: Yesterday was a favourable day along the whole front. The British are the masters of numbers of trenches south of Ypres,…

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Progress of the War. Sir John French's Report. Bravery of the British. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1915 · page 5

The Press Bureau publishes the first bi-weekly report from Field-Marshal Sir John French, commanding the British Expeditionary Force on the Continent…

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Books for Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1915 · page 7

A very serviceable booklet is "Hints to Non-coms, in the Australian Military Forces," Compiled by Lieutenant Robert Stupart, the author of several equally…

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The War. the Allies Vigorous. Enemy's Heavy Losses. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 February 1915 · page 5

The following communqiue was issued last night: Our artillery to-day destroyed many bivouacs and convoys of ammunition between the sea and the Oise…

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Soldiers' Liquor. Action in New Zealand. Wellington

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 February 1915 · page 5

The War Regulations Act prohibits the sale of liquor to troopers in uniform, for consumption off the premises, and also the purchase by civilians of…

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One of the Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 February 1915 · page 3

Capt. Edward George Spencer-Churchill, Grenadier Guards, whose name is in the list of wounded, is the only son of the late Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill, who…

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War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 February 1915 · page 15

They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win,…

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War in Swamps. Soldiers' Fine Spirit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 February 1915 · page 3

William Ridsdale, special correspondent of the London "Daily News," writes:— With an intuition born of past and…

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