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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,543 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 128
LONDON, Friday.—Gunmen wounded Laval in the shoulder while he was returning from a meeting with Hitler, states the Fighting French radio at Brazzaville (French Equatorial Africa)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Non-lethal weapons arriving at an equipment store in the Northern Territory are checked in by aircratmen…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY.—Usher revelled in his work on the outside of the Randwick course proper to-day. His three furlongs in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Improved tram and bus arrangements for war industry workers on the May Day holiday on Monday were promised by the District…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FEW minutes before the opening of a public meeting held by Hamilton Send-off and Welcome Home Committee last night the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GRAFTON, Friday.—Grafton District Hospital has accepted an offer by the Red Cross V.A.D. to pay 2/ a day for every soldier of this war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday.—In a new drive for slaves for the Nazi war machine, the Gestapo has ordered all…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At a public meeting last night in Hamilton Presbyterian Church Hall, support for the Australian Comforts Fund soldier adoption…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The annual Anzac commemoration service arranged by the Hamilton sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League was held at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A United Citizens' Anzac Service, organised by the Hamilton sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, wag held at Gregson Park monument…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HAMILTON ENTERTAINMENT. — Members of the Hamilton sub-branch: of the Returned Soldiers' League, associated by the Women's Auxiliary,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUSTRALIA AT WAR.—Belly tanks which are used to increase the range of U.S. and Australian fighter planes, are being manufactured at the rate of dozens a week at a New South Wales motorcar factory. Women are exclusively engaged on the welding of these tanks. This picture shows a section of the belly tank production at this factory…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sunday. — Revealing the Nazi preparations for war and the unpreparedness of France, the French Commander-in-Chief in Africa (General Giraud) said that in 1937 the Germans were producing 100 tanks monthly and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sunday.—Important as is Stalin's May Day speech politically, it is believed to have equally important military aspects. His pronouncement is interpreted in some quarters as heralding the Allied opening of a second front…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A CROWD estimated at 50,000 lined city streets yesterday afternoon to watch the biggest May Day procession ever held in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"I am going to oppose the attempt to form a sub-branch of the League in Wickham, not because I am afraid it would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, May 3.—Mr. Eugene Thomas, President of the National Foreign Trade Council, has announced the formation of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Monday.—"The greatest war of nerves since Munich has been raging in the South-west Pacific," says a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CARRINGTON FUNCTION. —Enilstment presentations were made to three service women and six service and welcome-home present of 5 each…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Our job is to help the men who are in the thick of it, and who can take it on the chin," said Rye. J. Mallyon, formerly welfare officer…
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