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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 30 of 129
Serious developments occurred in Danzig at the week-end. A crowd of Germans, including many in uniform, fired on and destroyed a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Based upon the service at the unveiling of the memorial to the Australian soldiers at Villers-Bretonneux last year, an impressive ceremony was held at the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Since their triumphal entry into Ottawa on Friday the King and Queen have been received with great enthusiasm on all their public appearances. To-day His Majesty unveiled the Canadian War…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Found guilty of stealing as a servant of the Queensland Incapacitated and Wounded Soldiers' Association, Leslie Duncan Sinclair, 46, former secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Speaking as a private citizen, the Auxiliary Bishop of Wagge (Most Rev. F. A. Henschke) told a meeting last night of his views on foreign affairs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The military pact between Italy and Germany was signed in Berlin at 11 o'clock this morning. It will become operative immediately. The pact, which will be valid for 10 years, provides…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A harrowing mental picture of the cvlis of war was conjured up by the Mayor of Newcastle (Alderman G. W. Jenner) in an Empire Day address to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A mat whom he later recognised as Gordon Robert McKay asked him where two returned soldiers, one of whom was Patrick Henry Shine, were to be buried…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A denial that cannibals were now being enlisted in Papua for the English Army was made by the Assistant Minister in Charge of External…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Features of the Stockton Branch of the R. S. & S.I.L. Ball at the Masonic Hall last night was the presentation of debutantes to the Mayoress of Newcastle (Mrs. G. W. Jenner) and the choosing of the belle of the ball by a "secret" committee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA. Dancers at Stockton Diggers' Ball last night. (At top) Between dances at the ball. Misses Maidie Dempsey and Joan Bourke. Dancers stood round the hall to watch the presentation of debutantes at the Stockton Diggers' ball last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day (May 24) is the anniversary of Italy", entry, in 1915, into the war against Germany, with whom she had formerly been linked in the Triple…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In response to public requests, the Commonwealth Government to-day screened the official film of the unveiling by the King of the Australian War…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →He was unable to determine a mandatory scale of profits on manufacture, said the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr. F. H. Forde) in the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In a Note to the United States, Great Britain reiterated her former declaration that she would be willing to reopen the discussions on the war debt question…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Joseph William Rogers, 70, who was found dead in bed at his cottage at Tugerawong, near Wyong, died from heart failure, it was stated at the inquest…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Women's Auxiliary, of the Merewether sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League appeals for clothes of all kinds to help distressed cases. It has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The death occurred suddenly at Southport to-day of Brigadier-General William Grant, Anzac officer and Queensland pastoralist. He was 63…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The State Cabinet to-day examined the State War Book, which has been completed. The Premier (Mr. B. S. B. Stevens) said…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, America's most notorious conscription dodger, at the time of the Great War, returned to the United States after 19 years of exile. He…
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