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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 130
The latest communique states: The enemy, after several fruitless assaults between Vaux and Thiaumont Farm, penetrated our first line of trenches between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public reception and presentation was tendered Privates A. Edwards and W. A. Beckett, who have returned from the front, in the school of Arts Hall on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Military officers of experience will tell you that it is impossible to keep the hometies with the soldiers too strong; the more a man thinks of home, the more ho…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In response to a numerously-signed requisition, the Mayor of Newcastle has con-vended a public meeting to be held at the Council Chambers on Wednesday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The latest official communique states; The situation at Fort Vaux is unchanged. The enemy did not attempt to develop Friday night's advantage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While the fighting was at its hottest, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, with his bulldogs, arrived, and a change came over the scene…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another soldiers' home was opened for occupation yesterday. The cottage, which is at Guildford, was erected by members of the local Voluntary Workers'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New Zealand War Contingent Association in London is establishing a soldiers' club. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, the Dominion High Commissioner, is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Inspired by patriotic motives, the press urges a bumper contribution to the present issue of war bonds. And further inspired by the belief that patriotism…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Major Charles Harold Longfield Beatty, D.S.O., of the Canadian Headquarters, who has been wounded, is the eldest son of the late Captain David L. Beatty, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The fact that the wreckage of the Tubantia is to be examined by divers will bring under public notice a section of naval personnel and equipment to whose…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Hughes and Fisher have visited the Anzacs on the West Front. They lunched with General Joffre on Sunday and will have an interview with M…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A meeting convened by the Mayor in response to a numerously signed requisition will be held in the Newcastle Council Chambers this evening for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A neutral, who lived many years in Austria, has given the impressions he gained during recent visits there to the "World" correspondent:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Norwegian mercantile marine during February, 1916, showed an addition of 35 ships, with a total tonnage of 36,941 and withdrawal of 20 ships, totalling 12,305…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A public meeting, convened by Alderman Broadfoot, the Mayor of Wallsend, and having for its object the consideration of devising ways and means for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alderman M. J. Moroney, Mayor of Newcastle, presided over a well-attended public meeting held in the Council Chambers, last night, to inaugurate a war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Council was Immediately summoned, and sat for two hours. General Sir William Robertson, the Chief of the General Staff, Sir Edward Grey, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Advices from Berlin report that a further war credit of £600,000,000 has been submitted to the Reichstag…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General Sir Douglas Haig, the British Commander on the west front, reports:—There was very heavy lighting on Tuesday afternoon east of Ypres…
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