Invalided Soldiers. Sydney
Another batch of invalided Australian soldiers—the third in three days—arrived in Sydney by hospital ship yesterday. Over 400 were on board, 382 being for New…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1917
3,607 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 56 of 181
Voting by Soldiers. London
The voting by the soldiers for the Commonwealth elections has already begun aboard the transport fleet. It begins, at Salisbury, and in France about…
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A public meeting called by Alderman Moroney, the Mayor of Newcastle, will be held in the council chambers to-night for the purpose of making arrangements…
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Ministers of the different denominations are to be asked by the Greta Anzac Memorial Committee to make appropriate addresses on Anzac Day, in the…
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It is expected that there will be a large attendance at the meeting in the Newcastle Council Chambers to-night, convened by the Mayor (Ald…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anzac Day. Public School Celebrations. Sydney
The memory of Anzac Day is not to be allowed to fade from the minds of the public school children, for Mr. James, the Minister for Education, has authorised…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aeroplanes in War
This question is discussed in the first number of "Flying," a new London paper. In his article "Aircraftsman" realises that an improper use of…
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WASHINGTON, Monday.—The Allied Commissioners will be received at the White House on Wednesday. The French delegates…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brazil. War Declared Inevitable
RIO DE JANEIRO, Monday.—Senor Barbosa, who was the popular candidate for the Portfolio for Foreign Affairs at present held by Senor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Argentine's War Fever. Buenos Ayres
The war fever is growing. A mob attempted to set fire to the German Consulate. The outbreak, however, was soon overcome…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cost of the War. London
An expert estimates the cost of the war at the end of March at £17,000,000,000, of which Britain has borne one-quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Help Win the War. Every Household Can Do So
Lord Kitchener said, "Elther the civilian population must go short of many things, to which it is accustomed in times of peace, or our armies must go…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Making Up Soldiers' Pay
To the Cessnock Shire Council, yesterday, Mr. W. Kearsley, M.L.A., forwarded a letter from Mrs. F. Morton, asking that the pay of her husband, who…
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Several Wallsend soldiers returned to their homes at the week-end. These included Sergeant W. E. Huntley, Corporal J. Hoff, and Privates T…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By Gueudcourt. Fierce Australian Fight. Germans' Trial of Strength. C. E. W. Bean, Australian War Correspondent. (Copyright Reserved by the Crown.)
British Headquarters, February 14. There was a fight on the night of February 4th, of which little has been written. A New South Wales battalion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Casualties. Killed in Action
CORPORAL SNEDDON.âMr. S. Platt, of Pittown, Wallsend was yesterday information that Corporal J. B. Sneddon had been killed in action on the 7th inst. Corporal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Killed in Action. London
John Russell a captain in the field artillery, the son of the late Mr. James Russell, or Carngham, Victoria, has been killed in action…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Anzac Day
Alderman M. J. Moroney, Mayor of Newcastle last night presided over a public meeting in the Council Chambers, convened with the object of deciding upon a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Shaken Men
In describing the establishment of an institution in England for dealing with "shell-shock" soldiers, Sir John Collie, M.D., writes in "The Times" of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Trophies for Districts
LONDON, Tuesday.—The War Office is setting up a Trophies Committee to allocate the captured guns so that as trophies they may be sent…
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