Helping the War Effort
MEREWETHER SEND-OFF AND WELCOME HOME COMMITTEE held its annual meeting and election of officers last night. The president, Mr. P. W…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1943
2,543 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 128
Ben Barnett Is War Prisoner
MELBOURNE. — Captain Ben Bamett (AIF). Victorian and Test wicketkeeper. previously reported missing, is now listed as a prisoner…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—The view that Japan was the main enemy of Canada and the United States was expressed by the newly-appointed…
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NEW YORK. Thursday.—Dr. Lloyd Ross, NSW secretary of the Australian Railways Union, now touring the United States,…
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SYDNEY.—Aged 16 and wearing a returned soldiers' badge and overseas service stripes, Thomas Dunlop, of Malabar, last night…
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CAMOUFLAGE NETS.—The New Lambton NES camouflage net making circle has now completed 118 nets The supervisor (Mrs. W. R. Harrison) said…
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A drive to increase the number of street groups buying war savings certificates, national savings bonds and war savings stamps is being…
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SYDNEY.—Farcon Knight turned the tables on War Eagle in the Two-year-old Handicap at Randwick this afternoon…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Soldiers' pensions should be increased by 40 per cent. instead of the 10 per cent. as recommended by the…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.— Wounded members of the A.I.F. who took part in the latest successful campaign against Rommel in the Western…
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Back in Australia after four months fighting in New Gumea, an other large party of A.I.F. men expressed delight at the prospect of…
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AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND DEPOT ROSTER for the coming week: Tuesday's WAOS, Presbyterian Women's Guild, San[?]gate Red Cross: Wednesday…
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LONDON.—Nurseries for the children of women doing war work have been opened at the rate of nearly three a day in Britain…
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LONDON, January 10.—The High Commissioner for French Africa (General Giraud), who is touring French West Africa, accompanied by…
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An appeal for volunteers as group leaders to organise street and locality groups for the War Savings Campaign is being made…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Matron-in-chief Pays Tribute to War Nurses
MELBOURNE.—Colonel Jane Sinclair Wood, Matron-in-chief of the Australian Army Nursing Service, who has retired after 30 years of almost continuous service in the AANS without a day's illness, paid a tribute to-day to the nurses of this war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French Successes in African War Italians Routed in Fezzan
LONDON, Jan. 10.—Detachments of the French Camel Corps have occupied Tachiunet, 100 miles north-west of Serdeles, and wiped out an Italian garrison near Tiaret, 60 or 70 miles north-west of Ghadames, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How Can We Beat Japan? Papuan Campaign Has Been "Test-tube" War
Who Has Just Returned From New Guinea. For more than five months now the Pacific war has been more or less centred on one small, campaign-small, that is, by contrast with the movement of tens of…
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Within a month a fully-equipped men's club, which will accommodate between 800 and 1000 troops a night, will be opened in the heart of an operational area. It is the first of its kind in the…
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LONDON, Jan. 11.—Lieutenant the Hon. Richard Wood, 22, youngest son of Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States, has…
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