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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
3,188 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 82 of 160
It has fallen to the honour of Australian battalions to share in blocking the German advance on Amiens north of the Somme. They were among the first…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is more than remarkable, it is stupendous, the work women are doing for the men in the trenches. Whether at home in the domestic sphere, outside on "days" in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the course of a speech to-day, Mr. J. Hedge, Minister for Pensions, announced that he is about to appeal for £3,000,000 for the rehabilitation of disabled soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The well-known writer Ian Hay is contributing to "The Times" a series of articles on the above subject. In one of them he writes:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →What is described as the most momentous British Labor Party conference ever held has opened under the presidency of Mr. W. F. Purdy. The foreign delegates…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Even since the war started, says the London "Weekly Despatch" of March 24, people have been asking, "Why doesn't the Pope stop the war?" They have pointed out for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Mr. J. H. Williams writes again. I am quite prepared to wait for the presentation which will in all probability be made at the end of this week, as it…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The final meeting in connection with Newcastle Returned Soldiers' Day was held at the Anzac Institute last night. General Meredith presided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Speaking at the repatriation meeting last night, Deputy Controller of Repatriation (Colonel Fair) paid a well-merited tribute to the activity of the department in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Walter Kilroy Harris, of the Drake Battalion of the Royal Naval Division, serving in France, writes to his parents at Newcastle, New South Wales, from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →With reference to the suggestion of the Labor Conference that the former Pacific colonies of Germany should be handed back to that unspeakable nation after the war, it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord Inchcape presided at a meeting of the Imperial Commercial Association which was formed to protect business men's interests after the war against too…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reuter's Moscow correspondent says that serious differences of opinion have resulted in the suspension of the Germano-Russian commission for the exchange of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"The Times" correspondent at Rome telegraphs that the Piave victory is everywhere regarded as only the beginning of others to follow, for the Italians will not be satisfied…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lord French, Viceroy of Ireland, speaking at Belfast, said that voluntary recruiting would be prosecuted with every consideration, but if the numbers required were not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A mild sensation has been caused by the resignation of Mr. S. Dark from the Recruiting Committee—not the Repatriation Committee, as reported this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the West Wallsend School of Arts Hall on Thursday night the patriotic committee rendered a welcome home to Lieut. Anderson, Lance-Corporal Mason, Corporal Keen,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A phrase means little or much according to our ability to pack that phrase with the weight of all it includes and suggests. We speak of a "nation at arms" (says the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DRIVER GEORGE.—Mrs. John Heddles, of St. James-road, New Lambton, has received word that her brother, Driver Leon George, was killed in action…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wounded soldiers held an open-air meeting at Leeds to protest against a strike of skilled engineers which had thrown a thousand workers idle at local shell factories…
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