Helping War Effort Lysaght's Committee
Further arrangements in connection with the send-off function which is to be held by the Lysaght's Send-off and Welcome Home Committee on…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1941
3,571 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 179
Hamilton Diggers' Gifts to War Appeals
At the general meeting of the Hamilton sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers League last night, the president (Mr. T. Fitzgerald) welcomed five new…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eire Feels Effect of Sea War
DUBLIN, Feb. 19. A.A.P.—The Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr. Sean McEntee) declared that Eire is as tightly and effectively blockaded as if she…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tennis Assn. to Purchase £300 War Bonds
At the 29th annual meeting of the Newcastle Tennis Association last night, the balance sheet disclosed a profit of £8…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →May Join League Servicemen of This War
Members of the forces returning from active service overseas, who possessed clean discharges, could be admitted to membership of the Returned Soldiers' League, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Certificates for Security Tennis Association Invests £300
Newcastle District Lawn Tennis Association decided at its annual meeting last night to invest £300, which it had in fixed deposit, in war saving…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →U.S.A. Gets on a War Footing Washington, Wed
American commentators see the United States rapidly getting on to a war footing. The atmosphere in Washington…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →American General's Opinion That Britain Will Win War Washington (D.c), January 14
Great Britain will emerge victorious from the war with Germany after a long-drawn-out conflict, Brigadier-General George V. Strong, chief of the United States Army's war plane division, predicted to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clubroom for Civic Ex-soldiers Committee to Consider
Civic Sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers League at the annual meeting in the Memorial Institute last night directed the incoming committee to discuss the possibility…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Barnes to Enlist
MELBOURNE, Wednesday—When S. G. Barnes, New South Wales cricketer, returns to Sydney after the Southern tour, he will enlist in the A.I.F. Barnes mode this…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Soldiers' Hostel Doing Its Job"
Some soldiers slept on the beach through choice, others through ignorance, Mr. Forbes (District Council) told Civic sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Chiropodists to Attend Soldiers' Feet
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Corns and bunions caused by ill-fitting army boots are to be things of the past. The Minister for the Army (Mr. Spender)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Taking Care of Soldiers' Feet Melbourne
Corns and bunions, resulting from ill-fitting army boots, are about to pass into the darker chapters of earlier and ruder warfare…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tug-'o-war Practice
This gang of B.H.P. construction workers obliges the official B.H.P. tug-o'-war team for the Police Carnival by giving the official team a practice pull each lunch-hour. The official team seems to be doing very well, judging from the position of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Veterans to Purchase War Certificates
The Retired Railway and Tramway Veterans' Association No. 1 decided to purchase 126 war savings certificates at a cost of £100/16/. Mr. J. H. Wilson…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Helping War Effort Lambton Committee
The Lambton Patriotic and Welfare Committee held a social evening in the Lambton Salvation Army Hall last night when two Lambton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hitler Is Worse Than War New York
"There are some things I hate worse than war, and I would rather die fighting Hitler than live under his rule,"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boys' Club for Coalfields No Attempt Till After War
There is a diversity of opinion about the suggestion to form a boys' club on the coalfields, but there is no doubt that an attempt would be inopportune at the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"War Is Moving Fast"—fadden Vital Need for Brisbane
"The war is moving so quickly that what was known as the Far East is now becoming known to Australia as the Near North," said the Acting-Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) at a civic reception to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Isolationist Sees U.S. in War If Aid Bill Is Passed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. A.A.P.—Citing recent "pro-war" speeches that have been made in the United States Senate, Senator Gerald P. Nye, a Republican…
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