Soldiers' Parcel Mails
The officials responsible for the issue of notifications concerning the despatch of mails carrying parcels to men at the front are not sufficiently prompt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1917
3,607 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 54 of 181
Progress of Teralba. Soldiers' Comforts
Excellent work is being done by the Teralba Boys' Comfort Fund Society, which was formed about six months ago. Parcels of comforts were forwarded for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District Casualties. Killed in Action
PRIVATE SMITH.—Word has been received by Mrs. E. Smith, of Gipp-street, Carrington, that her husband, Private A. C. Smith (better known as "Gunboat")…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wounded Warriors. Surgical Cases Arrive
SYDNEY, Friday.—A further continent of wounded and Rick soldiers returned to Sydney to-day. There were 266 for New South Wales and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Months at Anzac. Dr. Beeston's Reminiscences
"Five months at Anzac," by Dr. J. L. Beeston, C.M.G. (published by Messrs. Angus and Robertson), is a very readable book. Col. Beeston went to Gallipoll in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mexican War Almost Certain
WASHINGTON, Thursday. War against Mexico is regarded as a distinct possibill[?]y by the Department of State, which learns that General…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Widows' Pensions. Melbourne
A case has come under the notice of the Federal Treasury in which the wife of a soldier in the Australian Imperial Force has been told that it she accumulates…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →End of the War. New York
Private Wall-street advices state that Lloyd's is wagering 10 to 1 that the war will end in three months…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Soldier Returns. Recommended for D.C.M.
Included in the number of wounded soldiers who returned to Sydney yesterday by the hospital ship Karoola, was Gunner W. M. Stom, of the 5th Light…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returned Soldiers. Sydney
The hospital ship Karoola brought back to Sydney this morning 188 invalided soldiers, of whom 125 were for this State, and the remainder for Queensland. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Votes. Melbourne
The Chief Electoral Officer for the Commonwealth states that unenrolled returned soldiers will not be deterred by reason of the compulsory enrolment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wounded Soldiers Welcomed
Private Alfred Dann, who was wounded in the leg on July 19th at Flourbaix, returned to Newcastle last night by the Brisbane mail train from Sydney. He is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anzac Day
Alderman Moroney, the Mayor of Newcastle, has convened a public meeting, to be held in the council chambers, on Tuesday evening next, for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Allied War Conference
WASHINGTON, Friday. — Official dispatches from the coming. Allies' commissions mention the possibility that Marshal Joffre may accompany…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australia at War
In an address at Queanbeyan recently, Bishop Redford said Australia was at war, and continue to be at war, economically and socially, when peace was declared…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Some War Stories
A sergeant was instilling into a squad of recruits that which marks the advent of their military career, namely—squad drill by numbers. One man was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Democracy's War. Justified Allied Heroics
Reuter's Agency cables other passages from Mr. Lloyd George's speech at the Savoy Hotel in addition to those which arrived in time for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Labour and the War. Switzerland
Mr. Samuel Gompers, the President of the American Federation of Labour, will ask Britain and France to include Labour representatives in the war deputation to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canada's War Record. Men and Money
Information as to Canada's actual contribution in men and money to the Empire's cause has been given in Auckland by Mr. W. A. Beddoe, Canadian Trade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →League of Nations. to Prevent War. London
Lord Bryce, in the "Manchester Guardian," has unfolded a scheme for a league of the nations to prevent war, which was drawn up two years ago…
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