Cardiff. Returned Soldier Welcomed
Private Charles H. Thompson, who left for the front December, 1914, with the Thirteenth Battalion, and who lately returned invalided, was welcomed home by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1916
2,596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 130
Newcastle Soldiers' Club
An entertainment took place in the Soldiers' Club on Monday night last, when the Orpheus Male Quartette, assisted by the Lambton Orchestra and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Settlement of Soldiers. War Committee's Report. Melbourne
The sub-committee appointed by the federal Parliamentary War committee, to consider the question of settling returned solders on the question of settling returned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commonwealth War Loan. Closing Date 1st FEBRUARY
As the date approached on which the list of the second issue of the Commonwealth War Loan is to close, the question which each one of us should take into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. Western Activity. Enemy Attacks All Thrown Back. Paris
The latest communique states:—Details of the attempted attack by the enemy at the mouth of the Yser show that the Germans were unable to debouch, except at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Catts and Enlistment. Forbes
At the last meeting of Forbes Municipal council, a letter on recruiting matters from Mr. J. H. Catts was before the aldermen, when Alderman Bates objected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Punjabis' Colonel Wounded
Lieutenant-Colonel George Davenport Latham Chatterton, 66th Punjabis, who has been wounded in the fighting in Mesopotamia, was born in 186, and became a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Censorship. Melbourne
The following now regulations have been approved by the Federal Executive Council:— If, in the opinion of the Minister, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the Public Eye. London, December 6. Earl's Brother Wounded
Captain the Hon. Rupert Cecil Craven, Royal Scots Fusiliers, attached to West A[?]ican Frontier Force, who has been wounded in the Cameroons fighting, is the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A War of Attrition
Over half a million casualties, including 109,723 dead, the war has cost us down to November 9. It is a terrible total, tar, far larger than we have ever…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Aerial Fighting. British Success. Albanians Defeat Bulgars. London
General Sir Douglas Haig reports:—Twenty-seven hostile aeroplanes were met on Tuesday, with three captive balloons, and were attacked, of which two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farms for Soldiers
All sections of the people of the Commonwealth recognise that it is a national duty to assist soldiers who return from the war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Recruiting Campaign. Where Men Should Enlist. Sydney
At Victoria Barracks to-day 36 wore accepted and 19 rejected while at the Town Hall 80 passed the tests and 32 failed. The following is the official statement…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Stories
Mr. R. G. Knowles, a well-known comedian, appearing in London, has returned from the North of France with a budget of stories, of which two may be quoted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Finance and War
The Commonwealth Government has acquired by proclamation important powers in connection with the flotation of new companies and the increase of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Football and the War
There promises, to be a good deal of controversy over the question as to whether football should be played next Season or during the continuance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Reading in War Time
Out of a mind that can never get free for long from the sympathy that forces me to dwell in the spirit with the men in the trenches there are just two things…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Church and the War
The reason why the Church could not forbid the war was because it had failed to forbid the selfishness which led up to the war…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Influence of War in France
M. Painleve, the French Minister of Public Instruction and of Inventions concerning National Defence, has discussed with representatives of the French press…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The State and the War's Evils
We cannot remove all the evils of war. You cannot have war without evils. All the State can do is to mitigate these evils…
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