Marriages of Soldiers
The Registrar-General of Marriages has instituted a system whereunder celebrants of oversea soldiers' marriages must notify the Military Headquarters of the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1918
3,188 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 61 of 160
Week's Enlistments
The enlistments for the week in Victoria were 377, New South Wales 570, Queensland 93, South Australia 109, West Australia 60, and Tasmania 41…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Preference Shire Councils' Decision SYDNEY
A motion was carried by the Shire Councils' Conference to-day binding all councils belonging to the association to give preference to returned soldiers, when making…
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Examined before the Registrar in Bankruptcy by the Official Assignee, Harry Hyde, a returned soldier, said he enlisted in the A.I.F. about three years ago, and returned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Mails Increased Efficiency
It would appear from an official statement forwarded to the Defence Department by the commandant of the A.I.F. headquarters in London that a considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Excessive Zeal Soldiers' Dependants Suffer
A particularly distressing case in which the dependants of an Australian soldier have been made to suffer for his misdeeds, or alleged misdeeds, at the front was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Returned Soldiers' Day
Mr. H. J. Cannington, treasurer of the Newcastle Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Day fund reports:—Amount previously acknowledged, £16 16s; C. B. Greaves, £1 1s;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shires Will Help Soldiers
The proposal made yesterday at the Shires' Association Conference in Sydney, that local authorities might be consulted by the Government before land for soldiers' settlements is purchased, has practical value. It is an earnest of the desire of councillors to help in guarding the soldiers' interest, and the idea could bo practised…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain's War Costs
It transpired during a debate in the House of Commons that Britain has already paid 23.3 per cent. of her total war costs to date…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Casualties. Prisoner of War
PRIVATE SIDLEY.—Mrs. H. S. Sidley, Lawson-street, Hamilton, has received official information that her son, Private H. P. Sidley, previously reported missing, is now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Engineers War Work Development
Only a few years ago engineering or any other form of heavy metal work was regarded as the last occupation fit for women, writes Miss Winifred Stephens in the "Daily…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Perfect War Machine" French View of our Flying Men
M. Gustave Babin has written in the current number of the well-known Paris weekly, "Lillustration," an interesting and [?]gistic account of the work of the Royal Flying…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hatred of Austria Growing in Germany. Fears of Losing the War. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
The Amsterdam correspondent of the "New York Globe" has interviewed a Dutch traveller from Germany, who said that bitter hatred of Austria is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Offences by Soldiers
Senator Pearce, the Minister for Defence, has intimated that the names of soldiers who desert are to be made public. The decision should meet with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mails for Soldiers
A mall for newspapers and parcels for the Expeditionary Forces in England and France will close at Newcastle Post Office at six o'clock on Saturday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Wives' Passages. Melbourne
Correspondence has taken place between Mr. Holman, the State Premier, and Mr. Watt, the Acting Prime Minister, respecting the question of indulgence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Home Visits. Melbourne
Senator Pearce, the Minister for Defence, stated to-day that while the Government had not been able for reasons which have been explained at various…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Families Badges For Next of Kin
Although the next of kin badges for female relatives of men who have gone on active service are not yet ready for issue, latest military orders contained a revised…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Write to the Boys Soldier Looks Towards Home What to Tell Him About
"No letter for me again! All right: two can play at the game." That is the kind of thing one hears nowadays when the mail is distributed. The disappointed Tommy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District Casualties. Killed in Action
PRIVATE BOURNE.—Mrs. A. C. Bourne, of Broadmeadow-road, Broadmeadow, late of Cessnock, has been informed that her husband, Private A. C. Bourne, was killed…
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