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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,307 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 36 of 66
The War Office announces that five persons were killed in an explosion in the research department of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The annual conference of the Limbless Soldiers' Association of Australia, which is meeting at Canberra, decided to-day to send a deputation to the Prime Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Hamilton sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League, which met at the Masonic Hall last night, was advised by the State Secretary (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Important matters will be discussed at a meeting of the Returned Soldiers' District Council, representative of all sub-branches in the Hunter Valley and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A position has arisen which presents the alternative of amending the Returned Soldier Preference Act. or…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The secretary of Newcastle Seamen's Union (Mr. R. Franklin), who is representing Stockton sub-branch at the conference of sub-branches of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In yesterday's issue the career of the royal yacht, Britannia, which is to be scuttled, from the time it was built until refitted and presented by his father to the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →In an address last night General Rosenthal declared that "if howitzers had been landed to support the Anzacs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A debate was raised in the House of Lords to-day on the need for securing an adequate food supply in the event of war. It was recalled that the Minister for the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →In reply to a deputation to-day from the Limbless Soldiers' Association, which requested the restoration of pensions for wives and children of disabled…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →It has been revealed that the Returned Soldiers' Preference Act applies to all works carried out by councils which borrow money from the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A conference of returned soldiers, representative of 17 sub-branches, decided at East Maitland yesterday to reaffirm a decision of a similar conference held at West…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The removal of Mr. J. Oliver from the relief work scheme in the municipality of New Lambton was referred to at a conference of returned soldiers held at East…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Walter Frederick Blackman, 28, a timbergetter at Doomi Creek, near Wooden' bong, walked a mile to his father's home after being wounded in the left breast by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood wartime leader of the A.I.F., intends to visit Australia next month to see his daughter and grandchildren in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →William Henry Williamson is on the danger list in hospital, and an Italian, Stefano Parisi, a scissors' grinder, is under arrest on a charge of unlawfully…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Foreign Policy Association in a book entitled Clash in the Pacific," which is to be published to-morrow, declares that war in the Far…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Britain has delayed the rebuilding of her fleet so long, that it is now essential to have virtually a new fleet, strong enough to go anywhere and carry out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Women's Auxiliary of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' League met on Friday afternoon. It was reported that a number of sick soldiers and their…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →There was a unique ceremony at the King's birthday celebrations at the depot of the Hampshire Regiment at Winchester, when Minden roses were picked by…
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