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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
4,844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 243
Provided the people of Newcastle assist with the initial cost, the Church Army is prepared to go ahead with the erection of a hostel for soldiers on the Diocesan…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two soldiers, George Stevenson, 22, and Robert King, 23, were fined £1 each at the Central Police Court to-day for having thrown tomatoes, at a speaker on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →About 60 relatives and friends were present at a party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. Black, of Islington, to farewell their eldest son, Gunner P. G. Black,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Twenty-one-year-olds this year will fill in this from to-morrow. It is the form for compulsory training…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In a vivid despatch from the front in North Finland the special war correspondent, James Aldridge, describes the almost incredible rigors of the war being waged in the Arctic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A general appeal to the public for subscriptions to assist the Victoria League in Newcastle in running the soldiers' buffet was made…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Aid. J. E. Wiggins) to-day suggested that it was the responsibility of the Defence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—Once again the bugle is heard calling to Australians to mount guard against all enemies, both within and without. The spirit of Anzac has already…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"There is a vast difference between minding our own business and pretending that this war is none of our business," said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE BATTLESHIP H.M.S. Formidable was sunk in the English Channel by a mine or submarine. There were about 200 survivors…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Germany has issued a warning that she might enter the Russo-Finnish conflict if British soldiers appeared on Finnish soil, or the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A steadiness in war risk insurance rates on cargo and a reduction of 50 per cent, in the rates of insurance on some types…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Noel Coward is now doing war work in France. He is attached to the staff of M. Giraudoux, the head of the French Information…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dogs are being trained by the French Army to seek the wounded in thick forests and high grass, then go back and lead stretcher…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Finns Fight Back Outnumbered by their Russian enemy, Finland's fighting forces have made a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AUSTRALIAN veterans of the last war will learn with interest that St. Dunstan's—the famous English "victory over blindness" hospital for soldiers—will carry on its great traditions in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A message to his 19-year-old sweetheart asking her to remember him was broadcast by Corporal Alfred R. Gunton, one of the seven British…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Signs that the war may yet spread with the conflict flaring up between the Allies and Russia are engaging the attention of observers. Simultaneously the Nazi Press appears to be preparing the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fears that the war wil rain Europe were expressed by the Dutch Premier (Dr. D. J. De Geer) [?] broadcast…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →President Roosevelt's annual message to Congress to-day is expected to chart America's position in a world at war at the…
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