Training for Ex-soldiers
The fear that men returning from active service, being absorbed into civilian occupations on their discharge from the forces, might…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1943
2,543 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 128
Returned Men Not to Wear Unauthorised Titles
CANBERRA, Friday.—The wearing of the shoulder titles. "Darwin" and "New Guinea," or other un-authorised titles, was forbidden, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Puzzle Corner Elements of War
Each of these 15 jars on the company's laboratory shelf contains a different chemical element, a clue to the name of which is given below. As you identify…
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AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND DEPOT ROSTER for the coming week is as follows: Tuesday SKO Cheerio Club: Wednesday, Returned SS & A[?] League…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scientific "Commandos" Help War Effort
The Scientific Liaison Bureau could have a "scientific commando unit" under way within a few hours to help Australia's war, effort, and has indeed done so. The story of one of the bureau's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Irak at War with Axis
LONDON, Jan. 17.—The Government of Irak has declared war against Germany, Italy and Japan. Irak had already broken off diplomatic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prepare for Five Years of War Sir Donald Cameron's Warning
SYDNEY, Sunday.—"Australia has to prepare for a war that will last another live years; if it ends sooner, then ever so much the better," the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Voluntary Call-up Of U.S. Women For War Work
NEW YORK, Jan.17.—Plans for the voluntary mobilisation of woman power for war work in the United States have been announced in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Invites Cynicism on War Effort" Choice Of U.S. Envoy
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—"So long as Edward J. Flynn is serving as U.S. Minister in Australia, there will be an easy invitation to cynicism about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier's Death Was Accident
White inflating a tyre of a motor vehicle at a West Maitland service station an December 29. Driver Hubert Herbert Clarke, 25 of Narrabri, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Helping the War Effort
MAYFIELD FUNCTION.—-Waratah Mayfield Send-off and Welcome Home Committee decided last night to hold its next presentation on February 4…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Helping China in the War
In China a U.S. air task force under Brigadier-General C.L. Chennault is steadily building offensive strength against the Japanese. A recent raid on Japanese docks, warehouse and shipping at Haiphong, in Indo-China, was carried…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aborigine's Private War On Japs
SYDNEY—An aborigine, Ptc. Harold West, carried on a one-man war of vengeance against the Japanese after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bob Skene Reported Prisoner of War
SYDNEY.—Licut Bob Skene. Australian polo player. The has been missing since February is a prisoner of war in Malaya…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Teachers Work Well in War Factories
MELBOURNE.—School teachers who have been working during the holidays in war factories in Melbourne industrial suburbs, have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Street Groups To Sell War Savings Stamps
In a new phase of the War Savings Campaign started in Newcastle every householder is being asked to take a part and to form…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broadcast by Soldier Officially Reported Dead
AUCKLAND, Tuesday. — Officially reported dead nearly a year ago, a New Zealand soldier has come back to life in dramatic fashion — with a broadcast from a secret radio of the People's Army in Yugoslavia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wallsend Man Killed in Action
Mrs. H. E. Offley, of Brook Street, Wallsend, has been officially informed that her younger son Adrian B. Offley, had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Damage Insurance
More than 4500 assessments for war damage to property will be sent out by Greater Newcastle Council to-day to Mid-west property owners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Helping the War Effort
WAR PRISONERS' FUNDS.—Every street in its area has been canvassed recently by the Mayfield East Prisoners of War Appeal Committee, the…
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