Wallsend Soldiers
A welcome home was tendered Private David Renfrew at Wollsend last night at the Mechanics' Institute. Mr. J. Estell presided, and proposed the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1919
1,902 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 55 of 96
"A Surprise Packet" Lieutenant A. W. BROWN Wounded, and Prisoner of War
One of the most interested people in Sydney in the story of Alcock and Brown's famous flight across the Atlantic is a gentleman who was with…
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Why German aeroplane wings crumpled up and machines came tumbling out of the clouds, why people fainted in the streets owing to lack of nutrition—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Distributing War Trophies
It is not intended, says an officially-inspired report from Melbourne, that the 700 captured German guns and 3000 captured machine-guns shall he concentrated in one war museum, nor that the capital cities alone shall share in the distribution…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Hun Treachery Polish Fighting Noske's War Policy PARIS, June 10
The Germans hare rushed maDy trainloads of munitions to the Polish front, where the fighting is intensifying. Ten days' triumph for Noske's…
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Warrant-officer M'Pherson, of Newcastle, has received advice that his brother, Sapper H. (Doc) M'Pherson, is returning by the transport Nestor, which…
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Driver A. W. Rutherford and Private H. V. T. Hodgins returned home on Thursday night. After a hearty welcome at West Maitland railway station by…
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A welcome was accorded to Sergeant W. G. Smith, of the 30th Battalion, at the residence of his father, Captain Smith, Parry-street, Newcastle. Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmer's Small Army Thirty-six Children Twenty-two Soldiers LONDON, Thursday Night
The "Daily Mali's" Antwerp correspondent says that a farmer on the Yser had 36 children, of whom 22 served in the Belgian army…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers' Memorial Existing Club's Position
"I saw in your columns a day or so ago the letter of Mr. Charles A. Earp, in reference to the soldiers' memorial scheme, pointing out that the objects…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ISLINGTON'S 250 Returned Men Welcomed
Residents of Islington ward, of Wickham municipality, a fow months after the war broke out formed a military presentation and welcome home…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Value of Glass War Fluctuations Speculators' Losses
Many firms in the Newcastle district have lost heavily through speculations in gloss. During tho war glass price rose to an extraordinary extent. in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Islington. Welcome to Soldiers
A welcome to soldiers, arranged by the Islington Welcome Home Committee, was held in the Masonic Hall, Hamilton, on Saturday evening. The sapper tables had…
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Private Jock ("Wacker"), Buman, son of Mr. J. Buman, of High-street, West Maitland, returned home by the Brisbane mail on Saturday night after three and…
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The hospital ship Karroola arrived in Sydney harbour yesterday, with a number of sick and wounded soldiers on board. Many of them were permanently disabled…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Caledonian Soldiers Welcome Social
At the Honeysuckle Hall. Laman-street, on Saturday night, tho Northern Caledonian Society entertained at a welcome home banquet a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Back to Westy Eight Soldiers Welcomed
A public welcome home by the week Wallsend Girls League was ten[?] eight returned soldiers in the school of arts hall. A large crowd packed the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Peace Treaty Signed. a Notable Coincidence. Anniversary of Serajevo Murder of the Austrian Archduke. Germany's Excuse for War. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
The Peace Treaty has been signed. The German signatories were Herr Muller and Herr Bell. Herr Muller, the German Foreign Minister, is one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Sydney Letter. Premature News.—the Next War Loan.—a Little Thing in Economics.—the New Ferry Charges.—still the Influenza.—our Splendid Flagship.—the Political Situation.—coming Taxes. Sydney
That hope deferred makes the heart angry is sometimes as true as that it makes it sick. Suppose that peace is announced on Monday, what then? We have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman's Two Diggers Double War Allowances
A soldier who returned from overseas the other day, it is related, found that his wife and three step children had disappeared from their home a…
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