Soldiers' Memorial Hall
Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., has received a further letter from the Lands Department in regard to an application by the Kurri Kurri Sub-branch of the Returned…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1936
1,307 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 38 of 66
Anzac Day Observance
According to a ruling by the Federal President of the Returned Soldiers' League (Sir Gilbert Dyett) the New South Wales branch must restrict its observance of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →War Preparations Panic Feared in Canton Northern Troops Advance Hongkong, July 16
The probability of large-scale fighting between Nanking and Canton troops is increasing. The Northerners are now within 100 miles of Canton, where a panic…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Returned Men Newcastle Proposed for 1937 Congress Delegates Confer
Nine sub-branches of the Returned Soldiers' League were represented at a conference held at Newcastle on Saturday night. Mr. J. Murdock presided. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New System War Service Homes Graduated Payments Relief for Purchasers CANBERRA
"It is proposed to introduce immediately relief measures for the benefit of war service homes purchasers and borrowers, to operate as from July 1, 1936,"…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Meat War Employees to Sell Broken Hill Development Broken Hill
The strike of meat establishment employees took a turn to-day, when it was announced by the union that to-morrow the strikers would offer meat for sale…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wounded in Face Wallsend Man in Hospital
Newcastle police received a message the afternoon that Albert Gallagher, aged 41, of Devan-street, Wallsend, had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Threatened in Park Wounded Man's Story to Police Sydney
An unusual shooting, in which two men stranded with a revolver in Moore Park yesterday. is being investigated by police. One of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Returned Soldiers' Conference Newcastle As Venue Next Year
In an effort to have the 1937 State Conference of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League held in Newcastle, the City Tourist Bureau and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anzac Day Referendum on Observance No Change in Victoria Melbourne
At the Returned Soldiers' League conference to-night the State President (Mr. Holland), in opening the debate on Anzac Day, announced the result of the league…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Request for Relief South African War Veterans SYDNEY
A deputation representing the South African War Veterans' Association to-day asked the Government for a grant of £200 a year for 10 years for the relief of South…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Returned Soldier Pensions Great War Only Brisbane
The Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Hughes) stated to-day that Cabinet had been unable to see its way clear to grant a request by the South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anzac Day Uniform Observance Victorian Branch's Motion Melbourne
A motion that the Federal conference discuss the question of the uniform observance of Anzac Day throughout Australia was carried by the conference of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Iron Crosses for War Horses Munich
Ar the climax to Germany's first "war horse day," 110 horses were awarded replicas of the Iron Cross by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Civil War Peril Deflation and Australia Sydney
The increasing of the Australian exchange rate in London in 1931 could have been avoided by a policy of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Spanish Civil War Protect Britons Disposition of the Navy Statement in Commons (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, July 23
Replying to a question in the House of Commons last night on the civil war in Spain, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Lord Canborne) said that owing…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Issue Still Doubtful Civil War Approaches Climax in Spain Dead Estimated at 20,000 Shells Fall in Gibraltar: British Warship Opens Fire (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, July 23
The civil war in Spain appears to be approaching a climax, and the next few days may decide the destiny of the country. To-day the Government again issued what is becoming…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fatally Wounded. Delegate
While rabbiting yesterday, John Stuart, 28, was accidentally shot in the head by a pearifle. He was found by his brother, but died while being taken to hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Canadian War Memorial
The monument erected at Vimy, in memory of Canadian soldiers who were killed in the Great War, and for the unveiling of which King Edward VIII. is to visit France at the end of this week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Iron Crosses for War Horses
Munich, July 23.—As the climax to Germany's first "war house day," in the presence of cheering thousand 110 horses were awarded procelain replicas of…
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