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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

3,188 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 53 of 160

Anzac Day. Memorial Services

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 6

Anzac ac memorial services were held an various churches in the Newcastle district yesterday. At the Cathedral the Very Rev. H. K…

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District News. Greta. Anzac Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 7

On Anzac Day the soldiers' memorial monument was decorated with many wreaths, supplied by the ladies of Greta and other places. The Anzac committee…

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Trade After the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 5

The committee appointed by the Government to consider the commercial and industrial policy to be adopted by the Empire after the war, of which Lord Balfour…

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Frugality and Fashion War Bonds Versus Laces

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 6

A very influential committee, with Mrs. Lloyed George at the head of its defending, urges a crusade against vast expenditure upon dress, with a saving clause for War…

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War Prisoners New Agreement Signed London, Sunday night

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 1

Reuter's correspondent at Paris states that a Franco-German agreement relating to war prisoners interned at Chalons, and the condition of the population in the invaded…

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Wobble, Wobble! "Daily Mail's" Idea of Asquith Work of War Council

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 6

The grave military decisions reached at the Versailles Conference, a fortnight ago for the purpose of meeting the coming German offensive are being recklessly exploited…

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Our Sydney Letter. Anzac Day Items.—before and After.—£7,000,000 a Year Tax Free.—an Unlooked-for Listing.—red Cross Day.—little Raffles.—more About Eligibles.—a New Banking General Manager. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 4

Not everything on Anzac Day has been reported. There was the prelude, and again the supplement. With respect to the prelude how are we going the picture…

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Aid for Our Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 4

The new recruiting scheme may be said, so far as the Federal Government is concerned, to have now started. Another big demonstration is to be…

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Teralba. Soldiers' Memorial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 7

The soldiers' memorial and honour roll, erected in Macquarie-street, near the right-of-way to the Teralba railway station, was unveiled on Saturday afternoon…

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Address to Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 5

Sir Thomas M'Kenzie, the High Commissioner for New Zealand, opening a now club at Torquay for the benefit of unfit New Zealanders, said that the war…

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Lively Reichstag Censorious Members Soldiers Drowned in Flanders LONDON, Sunday night

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 1

Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam states that, according to "Vorwnerts." the military organisation was severely criticised in the Reichstag in regard to the German…

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Italian Soldiers to Vote LONDON, Sunday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 3

A message from Rome states: The Government has enacted an extension of the franchise to soldiers and ex-soldiers, irrespective of age…

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Watson's Bay Tragedy Returned Soldier's Badge SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 3

While walking through Gap Park, Wateson's Bay, yesterday, a boy found the body of a man with a bullet wound in the head and an automatic pistol clasped in the right…

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Scarcity of Soldiers Transfers From L.M.C. MELBOURNE

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 3

Senator Pearce, Minister for Defence, said to-day that, in view of the present scarcity of recruits, he had instructed commandants to approve of any applications from the…

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Sightless Soldiers In Hands of Germans

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 3

Someone complained the other day that we are becoming too ready to take it for granted that it is an easy matter to be happy though blind (writes Robert Lynd in the…

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Soldier Scholars Successful Anzacs London, Sunday night

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 5

Following is a further list of Australian-New Zealand Soldier Scholarships which have been awarded, thus bringing the number up to 35 scholarships in regard to all…

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District Casualties. Killed in Action

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 April 1918 · page 5

PRIVATE DUFFERIN.—Mr. P. J. Carroll, 39 Perkin-street, Newcastle, has been notified that Private P. F. Dufferin was killed in action on April 9th…

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District Casualties. Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 April 1918 · page 6

PRIVATE SNAPE.—Mr. E. W. Snape, of Mount View, Cessnock, has been advised that his son, Private Samuel Snape, has been wounded. This is the second…

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Footballers in War

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 April 1918 · page 3

According to the "Central News" Glasgow correspondent, a prominent medical man who has just returned from the Western front says that professional footballers…

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Barrister's War Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 April 1918 · page 5

Sir Grimwood Mears, who is going to America with Lord Reading, last year received his knighthood in recognition of the work accomplished by him during the…

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