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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 78 of 99

The Patriotic Funds. Returned Soldiers' Claims

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 October 1915 · page 5

At the meeting of the Newcastle Eight-hour Committee at the Trades Hall last night, a delegate mentioned the complaints that had been made regarding…

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More Wounded Soldiers. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 5

A transport, with a number of wounded men from the Dardanolles, is expected to reach Sydney on Monday morning. She will berth at Woolloomooloo Bay, and the…

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Brigadier-general Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 10

Brigadier-General Henry Haggard, who has been wounded, is a son of the late Colonel T. T. Haggard, R.A., and is a cousin of Sir Rider Haggard, the…

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Gas and War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 14

Chlorine is undoubtedly the gas which the Germans have used in Flanders (says Sir Ray Lankester, in the London "Daily Telegraph"), and is the most suitable for…

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The Great War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 3

Sir,—The present war will go down in history as the war of wars, After this gigantic struggle, reaction will set in, but not until then shall we have any…

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A War Plague

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 15

One of the plagues of the war is the man who is so busy telling other people what to do that he has no time to do anything himself…

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Home Rule and War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 11

Mr. John Redmond addressed a convention of delegates from the branches of the United Irish League in the county of Waterford, at Waterford, on August…

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False Economy. War's Effect on Dress

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 12

The London premises of tire world-renowned dressmaking firm of Worth are to be closed. A member of the staff of one of the…

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Efficiency and the War. Lecture in Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 7

Mr. Meredith Atkinson, M.A., secretary for Tutorial Classes, University of Sydney, delivered a lecture at the Newcastle School of Arts on Thursday evening, on…

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The War in the Slums. London, August 29th

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 11

The war—to the very poor of London—is not an unmixed evil. Indeed, many women have never in their lives been so well off as when, their husbands fighting,…

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The War. Servia's Great Fight. Splendid Defence. Enemy Held Back. with Heavy Losses. Nish

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 5

The latest communique states:—A battalion captured and dismantled an enemy battery during fighting to the northward of Pajarevatore and Astorig…

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Maitland District. Soldiers' Christmas Cheer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 6

Thirty-two cases of "Christmas Cheer" —the contents of which wore collected by Mrs. R. St. Vincent Heyes—for the heroes of Gallipoll, were shipped for Egypt…

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Cardiff. Deaths of Two Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 3

Trooper T. Maclean, who died from his wounds, was eighteen years of ago, and the youngest son of Mrs. C. Maclean, Fern Valley, Cardiff. He was a native of…

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Land for Soldiers. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 4

Mr. J. C. Watson to-day denied the statement that his scheme for providing employment and land for returned soldiers had not been approved by the…

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Newcastle Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1915 · page 5

The members of the Volunteers from Newcastle Comforts League—Mrs. Harry Randall, Misses Wheelor (2), Macleod (2), Jonos (2), Beckett (2), Brunker (3), and…

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Three Times Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 October 1915 · page 4

Lieutenant the Hon. Charles Alfred Lister, Royal Marines, serving with the Hood Battalion Royal Naval Division, has been wounded for the third time…

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V.c. Hero Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 October 1915 · page 4

Captain G. G. E. Wylly, V.C., Queen's Own Corps of Guides, who has been wounded While engaged with the Indian Forces, served in the South African War,…

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A Much-wounded Man. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 October 1915 · page 5

Amongst the latest arrivals at Mount Felix Hospital, at Walton-on-Thames, is a New Zealander, who has 49 distinct shrapnel wounds…

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The War. Servia's Great Fight Against Tr[?]mendous Odds. Great Enemy Losses. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 October 1915 · page 5

Official reports from Nish on Saturday evening report fighting of a most terrible character on the whole of the Austro-German and Dulgar fronts…

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South Australia. Killed in Action

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1915 · page 4

Sergeants T. Willoughby, H. L. Gooch, DIED OF ILLNESS. Private J. A. While. MISSING…

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