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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
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It is expected that Anzac Day will be commemorated this year in the city ind suburbs of Newcastle on a more extensive scale than for some years. In addition to the usual combined services, individual…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The value of films as war propaganda was discussed by Mr. J. Fearon in an address to the Cessnock Rotary Club…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, April 14. A.A.P.—"London diplomats in close touch with Rumanian affairs believe that a dramatic announcement about…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Convened by the Federal Government, a trade-union convention, at which Australia's position in relation to the war will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pte. Neville John Croft, son of Mr. A. J. Croft, baker, of Belmont and Swansea, died in New Guinea. He was a member of Caves Beach…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—Several weeks ago Private Percy Cole, 33, married Mrs. Elizabeth Cole, 85, of Warragul, Gippsland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HAMILTON SEND-OFF and Welcome-home Younger Set entertained more than 40 members of the Services at tea and a social evening yesterday. Misses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Sunday: As a protest against censorship, war correspondents on the Indian tear front have decided to cease filing dispatches. This is reported by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It would be quite wrong to suggest to anyone that all the problems likely to confront Australia at the end of the war had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Lend-lease" has been a measure of war, and the operations as we now know them will some day draw to a close. "There has been built up a principle of mutual aid in mutual self-interest that must live on. There is more unity of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Sunday.âPte. William Burns, A.I.F., Queensland, who was injured in a brawl with servicemen at the corner of Albion and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Widows of returned soldiers who arc living in rooms find it impossible to get the £75 furniture grant from the Repatriation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"If this is the attitude towards returned soldiers while the war is on I do not know what it will be like after the war," declared the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a meeting of Kurri Kurri Returned Soldiers' sub-branch it was decided to hold Anzac services on Tuesday. April 25. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wallsend will celebrate its Anzac Day services with a procession starling al 3.30 p.m. from the corner of Tyrrell and George…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. J. Cooper. T. Herd. I. Bishop and M. Horne will represent Wallsend RSL at the Anzac service to be held at the new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Men of the Militia who have served in forward areas are to be invited to take part in the Anzac Day march in Newcastle. This was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LYSA[?]'S CLUB.—At the weekly meeting of L[?]ght's Excelsior Welfare Club, the president (Mrs. E. Wilson) thanked Mrs. Brown for the use of her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Contributions to the First Victory Loan at Kurri Kurri to date are £7010. with 46 subscribers. The town's quota is £40,000. with 800…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Members of Cardiff Railway Workshops War Loan Committee signing up fellow employees for First Victory Loan bonds. The lad being signed up is John Heather, third year apprentice, whose father had been a prisoner of war, but has been repatriated. He took a £20 bond (his second). Near him (wearing cap) is Mr. D. Rayner, who issued a challenge that he would take £30 in bonds if…
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