Offers Eye to Blind Soldier
BATHURST, Thursday.—A 30-year-old cripple, Mr. Harold Phillips, who has been paralysed from the knees down for six years, wants…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
2,418 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 121
"Soldiers' Claim Disregarded" Senate Debate on Preference
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Senator Brand (U.A.P. Victoria) obtained the adjournment of the Senate to discuss a matter of urgency in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Set. Pilot T. Griffiths Killed In Action
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Griffiths, of Glen Davis, and formerly of Newcastle, have been advised that their elder son, Sergeant Pilot…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Helping the War Effort
WARATAH SALVAGE.— Receptacies for the deposit os salvage will be placed in Georgetown and Waratah, and will be supervised by NES wardens…
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MELBOURNE.—When he went to the aid of a girl who was struggling with an Allied soldier in Alexandra Gardens early this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jobs for Returned Men: Alp Concern
Discharged servicemen should be found suitable Jobs immediately, or, if through disability, they were unable to work, should be given…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Against Hospital Ward Wallsend Returned Men
Wallsend sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League decided yesterday not to support the proposed £15,000 league memorial ward at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Helping the War Effort
SOLDIERS ENTERTAINED.—Members of the Hamilton sub-branch of the Returned soldiers League, assisted by the women's auxiliary, entertained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blood Banks War's Greatest Advance
Marshalling of blood into blood banks for use in transfusions, often in the front line, had been the greatest medical advance made during the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian War Photos for Britain
CANBERRA.—Two large Australian photographic exhibitions and four small ones are being prepared to tour Britain in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Risk Rates Are Lower
NEW YORK, Sunday.—The Institute of Marine Underwriters has reduced war risk cargo insurance rates to Australasia, via…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Equipment Will Win Pacific War
NEW YORK, Sunday.— A vast and complicated supply organisation is behind recent military moves in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Six Million Frenchmen Aid Nazi War Effort
LONDON, Sunday.—While half a million Frenchmen in France are fighting the Nazis, six million others are helping the German war effort in one way or another. This is revealed by Ralph Hein-[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Discuss Order on War Loans and Homes
"Do you not think that that savours of Gestapo methods?" Mr. J. D. Archer (Boolaroo) asked Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A. at a meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Council and the U.A.P.
The United Australia Party goes from blunder to blunder. Having decided in a moment of pique to sever its association with the War…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Finland Tells Berlin She Will Quit War
LONDON, Feb. 27. A.A.P.—According to reliable neutral diplomatic circles in London. Finland has officially informed Berlin of her desire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Week's Raids "Turning Point in Air War" Luftwaffe's Defence Power Seriously Weakened
LONDON, Feb, 27. A.A.P.—Last week's Allied air blows at Germany's aircraft factories, culminating in the double attack against Augsburg on Friday night, are described by an American Air Force spokesman as the turning point of the air war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Extension Of Vote In NSW To Soldiers Under 21
SYDNEY.—Extension of the vote at the coming State elections to soldiers under the age of 21 who have served or are serving…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sick Soldiers Short of Tobacco
The tobacco position as far as tick soldiers in hospitals are concerned is very acute," said Mr. W. Cairns (welfare officer) to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Servicemen Wounded in Sydney Hotel
SYDNEY, Monday.—Two servicemen—received knife wounds during no altercation in an hotel in Pitt-street this afternoon. It is believed…
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