Soldier-lord Deserted Canadian Regiment Episode LONDON, July 28
How every warrant-officer and noncommissioned officer, with one exception, deserted a Canadian regiment, was told by Lord Cromwell…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1938
1,377 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 43 of 69
Kurri Soldiers' Auxiliary Old Time Social
A BUSH and old-time social arranged by the Kurri Returned Soldiers' Women's Auxiliary in the Memorial Hall was largely attended. Much…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →East Maitland War Bridge Afternoon
A war bridge in aid of the funds of St. Peter's Church Women's Guild was held at "Coonong," the residence of the Mayor and Mayoress of East Maitland,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →War Horrors Not Fault of Science "World Misuses Gifts" London, August 17
"Science is not the handmaid to frightfulness," declared Lord Rayleigh, the eminent physicist, in his presidential address to-day to the British Association for the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Rebel Setback Several Divisions Wiped Out Government Claims War Issue Not Affected by Cabinet Crisis (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, August 18
The Spanish Government forces, according to a message from Barcelona, claim to have repulsed fresh rebel attacks south-east of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Before the War British Documents Story of Last Years of Peace
An informative review of "British Documents on the Origins of the War. 1898-1914," edited by G. P. Gooch and Harold Temperley, Vol. X., Part 2, appears in…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Sleeps Only 3 SECONDS Strange Legacy Of The War LONDON, August 3
For years Joe Day. an Oxford, England, grocer, aged 59. has only been able to sleep for three seconds at a time…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Strong Britain "Readier for War Than in 1914" German Summing-up Press Warns Fighting Power Unparalleled (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, August 18
A series of articles in a German newspaper summing up Britain's war strength indicates that she is readier for war than she was in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Rebel Dissension Rumours Hearten Spanish Loyalists Ebro Hostilities "May Yet Lead to Greatest Battle of War" (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, August 19
Expressing the opinion that hostilities on the Ebro River may yet lead to the greatest battle of the war in Spain, the Barcelona correspondent of "The Times"…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →War Pension After 18 YEARS Widowed Mother Succeeds SYDNEY
Eighteen years after the death of her soldiers son, Mrs. Phobe Blundell, 80, of Tumut, has just established her right to a widowed mother's war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"War Inevitable" Between Russia and Japan a Chinese Opinion Hongkong, August 21
On his return to Hougkong from Moscow on Friday, Mr. Sun Fo, the President of the Legislative Yuan (China's Parliament), said: "Very active support for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →German Soldier Predicts Japan Will Lose War Foresees Fearful Revolution (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, August 22
Major Lindeman, a German officer, who was formerly one of General Chiang Kai-shek's military advisors, predicting at Colombo, that Japan would lose both the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stricter Law Urged Soldiers and Foreign Migrants SYDNEY
When the Federal executive of the Returned Soldiers' League meets in Melbourne to-morrow a proposal will be discussed for the deportation of any foreigner…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Factor in Hospital Design Darwin
The risk of attack by enemy gunfire or gas bombs must be taken into account in designing a new hospital for Darwin, Dr. Cecil Gaor, chief…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Little War on North West Frontier London
The gallantry of a solitary British officer in a lonely post on the Northwest Frontier has been rewarded with the Military Cross. The officer is Lieutenant Godfrey Leswill. Second Royal Battalion Luhiana Sikhs, 11th Sikh Regiment, Indian Army…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Ship for a Girl End of a Great War Drama London, August 10
The young beautiful brunette danced in a cloud of gossamer veils in the little Constantinople cafe. She was Despina Nezie…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Hit-run Alleged Ex-Soldier Critically Hurt SYDNEY
William Walter Brunton, 60, of Bondi, a one-legged returned soldier was knocked down and critically injured by a motor-car in Oxford-street, Paddington, to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Service Homes
Since coming into operation on March 6, 1919, the War Service Homes Commission, which is charged with the administration of the Act, has expended…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Pathologist to Be Enlisted League's Fight For War Pension SYDNEY
The City of Sydney sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League has decided to support Coogee-Randwick sub-branch in its endeavors to secure…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Fired on Italian Ambassador's Wife Wounded Chauffeur Disobeyed Police London, August 25
While the Italian Ambassador to Nationalist Spain was motoring in San Sebastian on Monday night, police called on him to halt…
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