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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1915

1,979 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 99

Deaths of Soldiers. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 5

The Defence Department announces the following deaths of soldiers:—Driver C. S. Newman, of Victoria, 4th Battery, 2nd Field Artillery, at Mena, of pneumonia,…

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Earl's Son Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 4

Major George Glamrs, of the Black Watch, who has been wounded, it the oldest son of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore, and take his title from the…

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The Commercial War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 14

The problem before this country is that at the end of the war she will again have to face Germans as trade rivals. If there is a German State it will back…

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Lecture on the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 6

The Rev. James Wilson, of New Zealand, who is to preach at the Central Hall to-morrow, has had a year of varied exer[?]enees in Great Britain and…

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Three Sons at the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 5

Mr. T. P. Prince, of Islington, who, in the seventies was himself a sailor in the British Navy, and who is now a locomotive driver in the New South Wales…

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War Heroes Honoured. Winners of the V.c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 6

A special supplement of the "London Gazette," the organ of the British Government for official proclamations, announces that King George has granted…

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The War. Aerial Battles. Attacks on Belgium. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 5

The Germans are expelling the inhabitants of the districts of the Argonne, the Meuse, and the Marne and from Alsace…

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British and French Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 13

No better proof of the binding sympathy between, the British and French nations can be had than the cordial relations which exist between the soldiers…

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Letters for Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 4

It is regrettable that there has been some cause of complaint that letters addressed to members of the first Australian Expeditionary Force have…

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Duration of the War. a Russian Opinion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 April 1915 · page 7

I am afraid it is not possible to state in is many words (says the special correspondent of the "Daily Mail," telegraphing from Vilna, on 27th January) what…

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Vienna Demonstration. Down with the War Rome

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

The Austrian people are tired of their privations and the army's reverses, and are agitating for the stoppage of the war…

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The War. the Enemy Weakens in Men and Munitions. London

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

The Press Bureau states:—The Britis, observer with the French army, summing up the six weeks' offensive in the Northern Champagne district, says the Germans…

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Interesting War Lecture

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1915 · page 5

The Rev. James Wilson delivered an interesting lecture, before a large audiences at the King's Hall, Newcastle, last night, on a "Christmas Visit to Battlefields of…

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Field Artillery in War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1915 · page 4

The primary function of field artillery is to support the interny. You cannot win battles and occupy an enemy a position and purs[?] his round forces tol[?]…

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Patents and the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1915 · page 4

There has been a good deal of confusion in the public mind concerning the effect of the war on patents of enemy subjects which have received…

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A Labour View. Objects of the War. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1915 · page 5

Prior to the opening of the Independent Labour Party's Conference at Norwich, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, M. P., addressing the Union of Democratic…

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The War. Russia's Progress. Defeat of Germans. Austrians Retreating Petrograd

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1915 · page 5

The latest communique states:—Fighting westward of try River Niemen, in Poland, is developing is our favour. Our cavalry, after a stubborn fight with…

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India and the War. Active Participation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1915 · page 8

India is not contented with supplying fighters to help to crush the enemies of the Empire, and paying for their maintenance while on active service, but she…

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Swindlers and the War. Unscrupulous Frauds

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1915 · page 8

Many contemptible individuals, of both sexes, are making the war a convenient excuse for preying upon their follow-creatures, rinsing the changes upon some old…

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Cotton in War. Plea of Scientists. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1915 · page 5

Leading scientists support the view of Sir William Ramsay the eminent chemist and scientist, that it would be greatly to the interest the of Allies to treat…

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