Polo Player Wounded
Captain L. H. Hardy, 1st Life Guards whose name appears in the list of wounded, was one of the best polo players of his day at Oxford, and thrice appeared for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1915
1,979 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 99
War Food Fund
Lady Edeline Strickland's special appeal for food for the distressed Belgians.—The Secretary, Newcastle Chamber of Commerce yesterday received the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Earl a Prisoner of War
Viscount Crichton, who has now become Earl of Erne on the death of his father, is a prisoner of water in Germany. He is a Major in the Royal Horse Guards,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney War Food Fund. Further Contributions Wanted
This fund was established under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce in August last—shortly after the outbreak of the war in Europe. Its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Further Fighting in the Allies' Favour. Paris
The latest communique states: The enemy blew up 50 metres of trenches in the Tracy le Val district, but was unable to seize them, owing to our…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Actor-airman Soldier
Lieutenant Robert Loraine, who has been wounded, is the well-known actor and aviator. He joined the Royal Flying Corps at the beginning of the war,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Miseries of War
I hate that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round; To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields;…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Hand Grenades in War
In their most recent despatches, Sir John French and "Eye-witness" both testify to the effective use of rifle and hand grenades in trench warfare. These…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War and the Housing Question
We shall all for a time have to accept a lower level of civilisation and dispense with luxury, not only in private life, but also in the way of public improvements…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →In German Tracks. Havoc of War
The "Daily Chronicle's" special correspondent G. H. Perris, who is making a tour of the French lines at the invitation of the French Government, describes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Books of the War. the Indian Regiments
Lord Macauley, in 1836, opened his famous review of Lord Clive's work in India with a comment on the strangeness of the fact that while the history of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chaplain at the Front. Weird Stories of War
Rev. Owen S. Watkins, one of the Wesleyan Methodist chaplains with the British Expeditionary Force, tells some most extraordinary stories of his experiences…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The War. German Defeat. Tremendous Losses. London
Reuter's correspondent at Saint Omar states that concentrating important forces between La Bassee and Festubert, the Germans, on Monday, tried to pierce the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cricket in England. Not During the War. London
The Advisory County Cricket Committee has decided that there shall be no county competition in 1915. If the war ends each county may…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Detached Soldiers. Fight Alone for Four Months. Paris
After the battles in Belgian Luxemburg in August, several small French detachments were unable to rejoin their corps…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Horrors of War. Send Germans Mad. Copenhagen
A doctor who recently returned from Berlin, states that thousands of soldiers continue to return from the front mentally deranged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. German Artillery. Mastered by the Allies. Paris
It is officially stated that the Allies have consolidated and extended their bridgeheads at Nieuport. The daily advance has been small,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Second Edition. the War. Call for Recruits. Speech by Lord Rosebery London
Lord Rosebery addressed, a recruiting meeting at Edinburgh on behalf of sixteen battalions of the Royal Scots. He appealed to the municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War. Germany's Attack on La Bassee Canal. Defeat by the Allies. Dunkirk
The Germans continue to be active at La Bassee. They have brought up heavy guns, and are shelling the British position…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Deaths in War. a Comparison
Official lists of casualties have been so incomplete or non-committal, and unofficial estimates so patently exaggerated, that an effort to compute the…
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