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The wars & local soldiers, 1943

2,543 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 128

New Clue in Search for Murderer Squadron-Leader Armstrong Killed In Action

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Detectives are working on a new theory that the murderer of Albert Edward Crutcher, 11, at Granville on SYDNEY.—Squadron-Leader Hugo Armstrong, of the RAAF, serving with the RAF in England, who was recently reported…

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Adamstown Diggers' Anzac Services

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 5

Adamstown Returned Soldiers' League has decided to hold its Anzac celebrations on April 18. The secretary (Mr. R. Keogh) will…

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Beer War Causes Concern

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 3

With no immediate end to the beer strike in sight, interest to-day centred on what action will be taken to-night…

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Tattersall's Help War Effort

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 6

Amounts totalling £3500 were subscribed to the Commonwealth war loans, making a total of £5500 subscribed, it was disclosed in the report which will…

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Helping the War Effort

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 2

NEW LAMBTON BOMB VICTIMS' AUXILIARY will hold a dance in New Lambton Parish Hall on March 16. Members will assist the Western…

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No Mass Reprisals After War

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Wed.—Britain will never seek to take vengeance by wholesale mass reprisals against the…

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"Women War Workers All Volunteers"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Minister for Labour (Mr. Ward) said that women who had been sent to war work recently by the…

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Divided on War Pensions Opposition Parties

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Further evidence of a division in the Opposition ranks was seen in the stand taken by a bloc of New South…

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Lessons of Convoy Defeat U.S. Office of War Information

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 2

We have won a great victory in the South-west Pacific, says Major G. Fielding Eliot in the New York…

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Soldier A.W.L., Mother Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Mrs. Grace Bradley, of Cheltenham, was fined £10 at Cheltenham Court to-day on a charge of having harboured…

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Suburban and District Adamstown Returned Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 4

The President (Mr. R. Gardiner), at the meeting of the Adamstown branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association last night, asked members to join in…

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Suburban and District Anzac Day Plans at Mayfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 March 1943 · page 4

On the motion of Mr. R. Cunningham, Waratah-Mayfield sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League last night decided to…

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Nazis Start War of Whispers

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 March 1943 · page 1

LONDON. Thursday.— A carefully harmonised chorus of whispers, designed to sow suspicion among the United…

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Man-o'-War Retired From Stud

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 March 1943 · page 3

NEW YORK, March 11.—The owner, Mr. Samuel Riddle, has retired the racehorse Man o' War from the stud because of old age…

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Ammunition Ship Blows Up: Dramatic War Scene

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 March 1943 · page 1

SMOKE AND SPARKS shooting skyward from an ammunition ship which blew up after she was blasted by a bomb from…

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Clergy Join Beer War: "Unwritten Law" Discussion

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 March 1943 · page 3

A committee of Newcastle clergymen, formed some time ago to deal with moral questions, will be asked at its next meeting to appoint a deputation to discuss with the Superintendent of Police in Newcastle a statement made…

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Five Years' Gaol for U.S. SOLDIER. Illegal Liquor Deal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 March 1943 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thursday.—For having dealt in liquor, Sergeant William N. Knapman, an American soldier, has been sentenced to five…

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Helping the War Effort

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 13 March 1943 · page 2

DORA CREEK COMFORTS FUND distributed £10 10s to the various appeals in February. This month's [?]onts is 1s £9. The Lord Mayor's Fund…

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Price Control After War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 March 1943 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday.—As part of a general plan to adjust the financial structure of industry to postwar conditions, a determination of…

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Helped War Loan From Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 13 March 1943 · page 4

MELBOURNE. Saturday—One supporter of the Federal Government's wartime finances is serving a long sentence in Coburg…

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