Anzac Day Services
Anzac Day will be commemorated with religious services at Morpeth. The Mayor (Ald. F. J. Glover) and aldermen have accepted Rev. W. E. K. Burkitt's…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1940
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Anzac Day at Kurri
Anzac Day will be commemorated at Kurri with a procession which will leave the Returned Soldiers' Memorial Hall at 10.30 a.m., and proceed along…
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The celebration of Anzac Day at Cessnock will begin with a dawn service at 4,15. A combined service has been arranged in the Regent Theatre at 9.30…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →What People Think Anzac Day
D. L Macdonald writes: The commemoration of the landing of the Australian troops on Gallipoli will be celebrated to-morrow, April…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Office Hours on Anzac Day
The office of "The Newcastle Morning Herald" will be closed to-morrow (Anzao Day holiday), but will be reopened at 6.30 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anzac Day Celebrations in Palestine Gaza
There will be historic Anzac Day commemorations on Thursday, when Australian and New Zealand units, English and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Scouts to March And Help On Anzac Day
The Scoutmaster with a few years of Scouting often finds it difficult to realise that the war of 1914-18 is ancient history to the Scouts now under his control. It…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Comforts Depot
The Happiness Clubs' representatives were on duty at the Patriotic Fund's war comforts depot yesterday. They spent a busy day cutting out and making…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Schools Observe Anzac Day Services Conducted by Staffs Added Significance
Anzac Day was commemorated in all schools in the Newcastle district yesterday. The ceremonies were mostly conducted by the school staffs. Emphasis…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HOW A.I.F. Will Mark Anzac Day Gaza, April 23
Additional plans for the celebration of Anzac Day by members of the A.I.F. include a memorial service which will be conducted in Beersheba cemetery by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The War 25 Years Ago
BOIS D'AILLY was captured by the Allies after heavy German losses. A message states that 20,000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Twenty-fifth Anzac Day Big Parade Planned To-morrow Public Holiday for Newcastle
Newcastle will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Anzac Day to-morrow with what promises to be the biggest march ever…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Norway Joins Allied War Council London
Norway was represented at the latest meeting of the Supreme War Council which sat in Paris yesterday and took "new…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Fund Gives Sporting Gear to Troops
Sporting material valued at nearly £50 is to be provided for troops in the Newcastle-Maitland district by the Newcastle District Patriotic and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Help for War Chiefs Assistants Appointed War Is All-time Job (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, April 23
Vice-Chiefs of Staffs have been appointed for the three fighting Services to relieve the increasing pressure of the war upon the time and energy of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cessnock Miners' Statement Denial That Strike Is "War-time Plot"
"In the ranks of the Australian mine-workers there exists every shade of political and other thought," declares a statement issued by the Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Nazi Technique in Air War Planes Appear in Swarms London
Alarmed by British and French air successes on the Western Front, the Germans have adopted a new technique in fighting. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Control Red Papers Power Given to Minister Cannot Refer to War Matters Canberra
Regulations designed to stamp out subversive literature were gazetted under the National security Act by the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Assist in War Effort Loan and Savings Committee "Money As Urgent As Men," Says Mayor
The nucleus of a committee, whose function will be to encourage the sale of war savings certificates, to assist in the flotation of war loans and spread…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Meet War Costs £1500 Millions a Year the Budget (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, April 23
Expenditure in the first seven months of the year totalled £905,000,000, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon) told…
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