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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
3,188 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 71 of 160
In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law announced that the Home Secretary, Sir George Cave, K.C., Lord Newton and General Belfield will be the British delegates to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—"Soldiers' Sister of the Railway Unit" refers to the ladies' committee having socials to obtain medals for railway soldiers. I think she is very much misled,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A mail for parcels for the Expeditionary Forces in Egypt, will close at Newcastle to-morrow evening at six o'clock, and for letters, packets, and newspapers two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Private Tom Long, who has volunteered for active service, was made the recipient of an auto-strop and safety razor and a pocket wallet by his friends, at a social…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Australian Labor Party conference in Sydney yesterday, a member of the credentials committee moved that the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Political League…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Six soldiers on a special furlough on arriving on Saturday complained bitterly of the attitude of the transport officers before disembarkation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A mail for the Expeditionary Forces in England and France, letters and packets only, will close at Newcastle at 8.45 a.m. to-morrow. A mail for the Expeditionary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stockton Council last night endorsed the scheme propounded, by Manly Council for the Insurance of soldiers by the Commonwealth Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One of the most pressing problems the New South Wales branch of the Repatriation Department has to deal with is the placing of unskilled returned soldiers in suitable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cecil Holland will make his final appearance for at least home time in a forthcoming Sclig feature-film. "The Still Alarm." the reason being that Holland is now one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PRIVATE CALLENDER.—Mr. and Mrs. G. Callender, of Dudley, have been informed that their son, Private Wesley Callender, who was reported missing on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →So successful was the War Chest Revue at the Victoria Theatre last evening, that it is possible that it may be repeated. The crowded houses yesterday reflect greatly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Governor of the Commonwealth Bank has written to Mr. James (Minister for Education), thanking him for the assistance rendered by public school teachers during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting at the Congregational Church at Orange last night terminated in a riot. The Rev. Thomas Roseby, Congregational minister, has been addressing crowds in his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Press Bureau states that Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. A. Balfour, Lord Milner and Sir Henry Hughes Wilson (Chief of General Stall) have returned from France after…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →I received word last night that since the column has passed from the northern districts 170 men have enlisted in the various recruiting centres. That is to say, for every man who joined up with the column, another man, probably a pal of his, joined up after we left"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Press Bureau states: The Supreme War Council held its sixth session under circumstances of great gravity for the alliance of the free peoples…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A regulation will be issued under the War Precautions Act forbidding, under heavy penalties, the sale or gift of alcoholic liquor to soldier inmates of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deputation from the Returned Soldiers' League asked Mr. Watt, the Acting Prime Minister, to accept the co-operation of the league in repatriation work;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alderman Murray, last night, in moving that Hamilton Council should co-operate with Manly Council in urging the Commonwealth Government to insure all soldiers…
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