Address to Soldiers
When the various sections had disbanded upon reaching King Edward Park Officer and men of the A.I.F. collected in front of the platform erected close to the band…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1920
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Sailors and Soldiers' Memorial Fund
The honorary treasurer Mr. C. A. Earp, has been notified of the following further donations:—Amount previously published £2814 10s 16; J. R…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anzac Sports Concert
A concert will be held in the Soldiers' Memorial Hall, King-street, next Thursday evening, when the prizes won at the Anzac Day sports on the Broadmeadow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Death Sentences
Lord Peel stated in the House of Lords, that the death sentences passed in the whole of the war time in all theatres upon officers and men numbered 3076,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prisoners of War
In the House of Commons, Mr. Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War, stated that the British Military Mission J Berlin reported only 222 prisoners in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Shipping Work
Mr. Wilson, the Parliamentary Secretary for Shipping, made a statement regarding the appropriation of money. The so-called deficit, he said,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Britain Finds Herself "Bloodless Revolution" One Outcome of the War Vancouver
The changes wrought by the war in England" almost deserve the title of revolution," said sir Eric Geddes, the new British Ambassador to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers' Memorial Carnival
The carnival in aid of the Hamilton soldiers' monument fund was continued at the Showground, Broadmeadow, last night. The ground was again brilliantly…
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The honorary treasurers, Mrs. G. W. Mitchell and Mr. C. A. Harp, announce that the total amount banked to date to the credit of the carnival fund is £1125…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Soldier Fraud
Anzac Day saw the reappearance of the soldier fraud, who battens upon the dinkum soldier for a shilling or two, as he alleges, tide him over for a day or two…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tighe's Hill Soldiers
In the advertisement column appears a notice to-day from the officers of the Tighe's Hill Welcome [?] Committee asking any returned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anzac Sports Concert
A concert will be held in the Anzac Memorial Hall (King's Hall) on Thursday evening, when the prizes won at the Anzac Day sports will be distributed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A War Episode
Sensational evidence was given at the trial of General Fournier and subordinate officers for surrendering Maubeuge in September, 1914…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seamen's Tug-of-War
A team from the French steamer Neidenfels has challenged a team from the sailing ship Bragdo to a tug-of-war contest at the Seamen's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Germany's War Stores. London
It is reported from Berlin that the Ministry of Defence has issued a statement regarding the German war stores. It is stated that there are 478 heavy and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle's Own [All Rights Reserved] The Story of the Battalion Chapter Xvii. (Continued). Post-War Raids
Raiding in France after the armistice sounds strange, but such exciting adventures happened in the various villages on the somme while the battalions were waiting to be sent home. The weather was intensely cold and the life taken as a whole monotonous. Little work was done, route…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Sydney Letter. the Unemployed.—poverty Not Destitution.—'made in Australia."—titles with Claims.—soldiers in Co-operation.—the Australian Credential.—encouraging Our Shipbuilding.—the Payer Trouble. Sydney
It is said that an effort has been made to exaggerate the unemployed. This, of course, would be to discredit the last administration. As against this it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District News. Hamilton. Soldiers' Memorial Carnival
The carnival in aid of the Hamilton Soldiers' Monument Fund was concluded at the Broadmeadow Showground on Saturday. There was a large attendance in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Old Gang and the Citizen Soldier
Mr. W. H. Kelly's criticism of the "military clique which is preventing the employment of the best brains produced by the war," can hardly be countered by Senator Pearce's feeble rejoinder. The public, or that section of the public which takes an intelligent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anzac Pipe Industry
Steady progress, the Melbourne "Age" states, is being made by the Victorian Returned Soldiers' Pipe Manufacturing Company in the…
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