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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1923

503 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 26

Soldiers Help Comrade

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 June 1923 · page 1

A fund, organised by the Returned Soldiers' League at Hobart, for the purpose of raising sufficient money to provide an annuity for Albert Hayes,…

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Unfit of Thought Need of Imperial Defence War Preparations Colonial Institute Lecture LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 June 1923 · page 1

Major-General Maurice lectured at the Colonial institute on the present problems of Imperial defence…

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An Ex-soldier's Suffering

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 June 1923 · page 5

The Prince of Wales in Birmingham inspected 1800 men of the British Legion, when a dramatic episode occurred. A tall lank ex-soldier named Westley…

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Presentation of War Medals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 June 1923 · page 6

A presentation of war medals took place in the West Maitland School of Arts last evening under the auspices of the West Maitland branch of the…

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War Service Homes Brisbane

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 15 June 1923 · page 8

Negotiations are proceeding with a view to the State acquiring for purposes of workers, homes land in various centres in Queensland, held by the Federal War…

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Helpless Soldiers Burned Alive Holocaust at Highbury Hospital Hut Heroic Rescues by Nurse and Orderly London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 15 June 1923 · page 1

Burned alive while strapped, screaming and helpless, to paralysis frames, was the awful fate of two former soldiers, Adkins and Robbins, lying bed-ridden in a hut at Highbury Hospital, the former residence of Joseph Chamberlain, which a geyser set fire…

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Tragedy of the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 June 1923 · page 5

One of the most frightful tragedies of the war is revealed in connection with the unveiling next Sunday of a monument to 350 soldiers who perished in the…

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Melbourne Gossip. Melbourne, June 14. the Soldiers' Win

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 June 1923 · page 11

There can be little doubt that when details of the interview between the Prime Minister and the Returned Soldiers' League are made public it will…

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War Memorials

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 5

Sir James Allen, the High Commissioner for New Zealand, will unveil the sculpture at the opening of the Garden of Memory at Le Quentoy, on July 15…

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Waiting for the Next War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 13

The Wanganui manager of the Bank of Australasia, Mr. C. S. Brown, who has just returned from an extensive tour in Germany, in which he got off the beaten…

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Missing Soldier Mother's Search Story From India LONDON. Thursday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 3

Mrs. McCarthy, of Manly, who went to England with the hope of finding her soldier son, her only clues being references in three newspapers…

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Aircraft in War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 June 1923 · page 5

The proposed new rules of warfare governing aircraft and radio, drawn up by the international commission of jurists at The Hague, as provided at the…

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In the Days of the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 June 1923 · page 5

A £60,000 claim for loss of a business alleged to have been ruined by the action of the military authorities during the war has been rejected by the War Office…

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War Medals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1923 · page 4

More than fourteen million medals awarded for service in the war have been issued by the Medal Branch of the British War Office. This huge total includes!…

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War's Latest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1923 · page 5

Secret experiments which have been carried out in England with the application of wireless control to aeroplanes have demonstrated that Great Britain is…

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Respected by Germans Soldier's Body Arrival at Sydney SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 30 June 1923 · page 4

Marked respect for the body of a Gallant Australian soldier who accidentally lost his life recently while a member of the army of occupation…

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Two-fold Programme Labor and Capital Peace and War Harding On Social Justice VANCOUVER

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 July 1923 · page 1

At Helena, in [?] a two-fold programme insuring the equality of labor and capital in peace and war outlined by Mr. [?] in an…

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Labor Catholics 25 Out of 36 Members Skelton on War-path DUBBO

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 4 July 1923 · page 5

Mr. Skelton, M.L.A. who is touring the west addressing meetings for the purpose of forming branches of the Protestant Independent Labor party,…

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H. G. Wells' Famous Outline of History The Romance of Mother Earth To-day's Instalment.—no. 153. Europe and the Crusades. Preaching the War Against the Infidel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 July 1923 · page 3

In this period to which we have now come, the period of the eleventh century, we discover a Rome dominated by the personality of an exceptionally great…

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Aussies in Palestine Dramatic Color Gullett's War Story LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 July 1923 · page 1

In reviewing Gullett's "History of Australia in the War in Sinal and Palestine," "The Times" states: "He has produced a narrative which will…

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