Sailors and Soldiers' Institute
Mr. C. A. Earp, president of the Newcastle District Sailors and Soldiers' Memorial Institute, has received a cheque for £256 14s 11d from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1921
847 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 43
Newcastle's War Trophies
At the suggestion of the War Museum Committee. Newcastle City Council accepted the trusteeship of the captured guns which were awarded as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kangaroos Deafening Ovation "War Cry" Demanded LONDON
Mr. Harry Sundrrland, the special representative of "The Sun" with the Australasian League football team, wires:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Carters at War "Swung the Whip" Diversion at Waratah Court
A continuous flow of humor prevailed in the case of Cecil Pyne versus Ernest Hopkins, for assault, and a cross-charge of assault and insulting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fight for Angora Greeks on Heights Surplus War Material LONDON
A message from Constantinople says the result of the battle for Angora was the withdrawal of the Greeks westward…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blinded Soldiers' Tea
For some time Mr. A. C. Payne, Maitland's blind Digger, has been managing the local branch of the Blinded Soldiers' Tea Company. Through his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Greco-turkish War
Questions asked at the Foreign Office by a representative of the Australian Press Association elicited the statement that the position in Asia Minor was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →India's Frontier War
A message from Waziristan states that the Mahsuds are evincing a desire for peace, and trying to arrange for the cessation of hostilities to reap their maize…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bubonic in Brisbane Sydney in Ignorance War Waged on Rats SYDNEY
The secrecy observed over the outbreak of bubonic plague in Brisbane was maintained so successfully that even the Board of Health in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Complaints. Melbourne
A conference was opened to-day of returned soldiers who are employees of the Commonwealth Government service throughout Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Exhumations of Soldiers
The Australian Press Association learns officially that the Imperial military authorities proposed to discontinue the exhumation of soldiers last March, but,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Memorial
The ladles' committee, under the guidance of Mrs. S. G. Clift, is straining every effort to make the coming "day" in East Maitland a success for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fate of War Horses
A terrible revelation has been made in the British Parliament. The War Office has too many horses out in Mesopotamia, where there is not enough for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Unknown Soldiers" 18,000 AUSTRALIANS Posted as Missing SYDNEY
In May, between 18,000 and 19,000 Australian soldiers were still missing. If the work of exhumation is stopped the fields where these men lie will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Poison Gas in War
The use in war of poison gas is discussed in the final report by the committee on the limitation of armaments, appointed by the League of Nations Union…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →British Industries. Post-war Difficulties
Some interesting sidelights of the difficulties British manufacturers have had to face during the war are contained in a letter written by a large firm of British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Service Homes. Important Test Case
Many complaints have been made from time to time that the final cost of war service homes has considerably exceeded the amount named in the application form,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War on Rats Action in Newcastle Cleaning Up the City Rodents As Plague Carriers
As a result of the Bubonic plague outbreak in Queensland, Newcastle, city may have a thorough clean-up. A better garbage system may be insisted on and a lot of old rookeries and heaps of rotten Mood and other debris may be cleaned up. A war on rats…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Morocco War
An official report from Madrid states that the Spanish have recaptured Nador. The Moors fled precipitously, leaving numerous dead and several guns…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle War Trophies. Discussion in the Council
At the Newcastle City Council meeting last night Alderman Christie asked if anything was going to be done with the war trophy gun in Shortland Park…
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