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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
3,571 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 179
Cabinet will probably soon accept a recommendation from the War Council that an expert shipbuilding committee be set up to supervise the establishment in Australia of commercial ship, building on a huge scale…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Jan. 15. A.A.P.—A British Supply Council in North America has been established to deal with the increasing flow of war…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A few weeks before Christmas the Women's Auxiliary of the Newcastle branch of the Returned Soldiers' League forwarded £25 for Christmas cheer for men on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LISMORE, Thursday.—Corporal Cyril Lovett, of the A.I.F., whose parents were advised to-day that he had been killed in action, in Libya, was one of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →If Lady Blarney is permitted to travel to the Middle East, the Government should immediately arrange aerial transport for the woman whose…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BERNE, Jan. 16. A.A.P.—War material brought into Switzerland by French troops interned here is being handed over to Germany. The Vichy Government…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle district bowlers continue to give their assistance to patriotic objects and several letters of appreciation were received at the monthly meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Alderman W. E. Young) and the Deputy Mayor (Alderman Stevenson) constituted a "reception committee"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"The stage has been perfectly set and if a single match is set to it all will burst into flames," declares the Tokio…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON. Jan. 16. A.A.P.—Statements by the United States Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull) before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →To lessen the anxiety of relatives of members of the A.I.F. who are wounded, the military authorities are attempting to devise a revised system of the telegraphic form of messages notifying casualties…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Since Merewether Farewell and Welcome Home Committee was formed last February, 109 volunteers had been entertained, the President (Mr. P. W. Rymer)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mrs. M. Buckland presided at the first meeting in the year of the Waratah-Mayfield branch of the Red Cross Society. Appreciation was expressed of the work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Major W. H. Murdoch, of the 19th Infantry Training Battalion now at Rutherford, has been selected with other officers for convoy duty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—May J suggest a way to help our soldiers and sailors who will be returning from the Middle East sick and wounded. Many of these men were employees of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →One of Britain's most noted radiologists. Mr. Charles Thurston Holland, who developed a remarkable method for the detection of bullets in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the olden days before Florence Nightingale's courage broke-down a convention, war was entirely a man's affair. The part of womankind was to wait, in tower or hovel, for the man's return, or the news of his fate in battle—news which, by the way, often…
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a meeting of the Morpeth Comforts Fund, presided over by the President (Mrs. Glover). It was decided to form a knitting class for beginners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LISMORE, Friday.—One of the youngest matrons in charge of a big hospital in New South Wales. Matron Norma McDonald, of Lismore Base Hospital has…
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