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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

1,979 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 99

The Czar and His Soldiers. Petrograd

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 August 1915 · page 5

A great part of the Winter Palace, the Czar's residence in Petrograd, has been transformed into a hospital for wounded soldiers. Accommodation is provided for…

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Premier's Son Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 10

Lieutenant Herbert Asquith, of the Royal Marines, who is officially reported slightly wounded, is the second, son of the Prime Minister, and was born to 1880…

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Wounded in Four Campaigns

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 10

Lieutenant-Colonel Weir do Lancey Williams, D.S.O., of the 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment, whose name appears in the casualty list of the Mediterranean…

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Australian Wounded. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 5

Arrangements are being made for the transfer of many of the Australian wounded at Manchester and other provincial hospitals, to four main centres at…

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War Marriages

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 11

The question whether it is desirable to encourage marriages between soldiers and their sweethearts on the eve of their going to the front furnished Federal…

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The War Loan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 6

There is no doubt about the popularity of the new war loan. Never before have the people of this country had such an opportunity of investing their savings to…

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Peer War-worker

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 10

The Earl of Norbury, at any rate, is not one of those members of the House of Lords who as Lord St. Davids said a few days ago, "have never done a day's…

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Taxing War Profits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 15

There is no doubt that a very considerable sum could be raised it some practical plan could be devised for the State appropriation of business profits which…

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After the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 4

We are passing through evil days, and part may be an [?]atonement. Consider Australia when the horn of plenty was running full. In every city there was…

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After the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 15

Large numbers of our young men who have been drawn by the army from sedentary occupations will be extremely loth to return to their old habits of work…

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United by War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 15

The shock of war is indicating a real desire to eliminate selfishness, and there is being made a united nation out of a populace separated into antagonistic…

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Novelist and War Correspondent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 10

Captain Compton Mackenzie, who was selected to succeed Mr. Ashmead Bartlett as correspondent in the Dardanelles, is the gifted young author of "Sinister…

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General War News. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 5

The British Embassy in Washington, has announced that cotton is declared contraband of war. The date has not yet been fixed…

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The War and the Academy. London, July 11th

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 2

As I write, every hour is bringing nearer to us the climax of the great struggle—the huge clash of the nations in the West, and London, like the world,…

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The War. Determined Fighting on Russian Front. Petrograd

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 5

The latest communique states: Our warships portecting Riga Gulf drew closer, owing to the enemy's superiority. The enemy at Kovno continues…

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Soldiers' Letters. Interesting Incidents. with the A.m.c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 13

Lance-corporal Cyril Lauer, who is with the A.M.C. attached to the Fourth Battalion now in Turkey, writing to his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lauer, of…

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Soldiers' Letters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 4

The cable message relating to the improvement of the postal arrangements in Egypt in regard to the distribution of soldiers' letters will he…

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The French Soldier

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 15

The French soldier at his best retains that quality of youth which soars ever above the muck and misery of the trenches…

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Appeal to Employers. to Assist Enlistment. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 5

Sir George Praguell, the Chairman of the National Patriotic Association, is dissatisfied at the number of business men who fall to encourage their employees to…

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Returned Soldiers. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 5

The returned wounded soldiers were tendered a public reception in the Exhibtion Building to-day, prior to which a procession of motor cars conveyed them…

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