Tighe's Hill. Welcome to Soldiers
Sergeant J. Green and Privates E. Shea and T. O'Hea, who have just returned from the front, were welcomed home at a gathering held in the Rosedale Hall…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1918
3,188 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 69 of 160
March to Freedom Last Day in Singleton Happy Soldier-boys Banquet at Showground
FIVE HUNDRED VOICES (Chant): One grasshopper jumped upon another brack; One grasshopper jumped upon another brack; One grasshopper jumped upon another brack;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stockton Soldiers Repatriation Committee
A meeting to discuss repatriation and to form a local committee was held in the Stockton Council Chambers last evening. The Mayor (Ald. Griffiths) was voted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District Casualties. Wounded
PRIVATE PEEL—Mrs. W. Pool, of Murnain-street, Wallsend, has been further advised that her son, Private W. E. Peel, has been severely gassed, and…
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PRIVATE CRAIG.—Mr. R. Craig, of Main-street, Cessnock, has been further advised concerning the nature of the wounds of his son, Private Bob Craig. He has lost his right…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Pensions
The British Government Actuary estimates that pensions and gratuities in the current year, resulting from known and imminent casualties, will amount to…
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In view of the payment on Saturday of over £50,000,000 interest on war loans, Mr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has made arrangements with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Future War
The Milan correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" states that the "Deutsche Volks[?]eitung" publishes the Austro-German treaty…
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Mr. Henry Morgenthan, who was the United States Ambassador in Turkey in an article in the "American World's Work," states that Baron Wangenheim,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Prisoners London, Thursday Night
The conference being announced in respect to the exchange of prisoners may meet at The Hague, in s fortnight's time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Caring for Fighters British War Pensions London, Thursday Night
Sir Alfred Watson, Government Actuary, estimates that on the basis of the present casualties, the future pension charges will amount approximately to £45,000,000 for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Escape From Enemy Three Australian Soldiers Tunnelling to Holland Fremantle
Forced to surrender to the Huns in a collar, from which there was no exit except under fire of German guns, taken prisoner and removed 50 miles behind the lines to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Insuring Soldiers Sydney Merchant's Offer SYDNEY
Mr. George H. Bosch, merchant, of Sydney, has offered to insure seven of the original Anzacs now on furlough for £500 each—that is, "A class" men, married, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Casualties. Killed in Action
CORPORAL MURRAY.—Mrs. Murray, of Toronto, has been notified that her husband, Corporal Winsleigh Alexander Murray, previously reported missing on…
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PRIVATE DALY.—Mr. R. Daly, of King-street, Cessnock, has received a further report concerning his son. Private H. R. Daly (previously reported…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Anzac Prospector Finds Gold in Wales London, Friday Night
James Wilde, a discharged Australian soldier has discovered a deposit of payable gold in a Welsh mountain near Barmouth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Labour and the War
Sir,—As I was the only one at the Trades Hall on Sunday night who voted against Mr. E. E. Judd's stop-the-war motion, and to call on the soldiers to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Chest Review How Newcastle Has Helped
War Chest workers are just now in the throes of a great knitting campaign towards the supply or 160,000 pairs of socks for soldiers by the end of June. Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The American Soldier. a Grand Fresh Force. Image of Old First Division. Australian War Correspondent, C. E. W. Bean. (Copyright Reserved by the Crown.) LONDON, March 1
A week ago two of us saw some of the first units of the great American Army training behind the American Front in Lorraine. One was enormously impressed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dances in War Time Glen Innes Mayor Outspoken ARMIDALE
At the last meeting of the Glen Innes War Service Committee, the Mayor, Aid. Leigh, said that there should be some unanimity among members respecting the from…
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