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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,418 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 121
Four and a half million pounds in money has been lent by the people of Greater Newcastle to the Commonwealth Government for the prosecution of the war, the Northern Organiser of National Savings (Mr. Cyril Adam) announced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON. Friday.—Britain and America will be asked by the Polish Government to mediate In the Polish-Russian frontier WASHINGTON, Friday— A quick ending of the war is unlikely, the Navy Secretary (Colonel Knox) told a Press…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thomas Wardle, 43, a soldier appeared before West Maitland Court yesterday on four charges. Three related to alleged thefts of military…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →RED CROSS.— Since the introduction of occupational therapy at the Red Cross convalescent home at Dudley, much benefit has been derived by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Sunday.—"The faces of our soldiers on the Russian front this year are very different from the faces…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Delegates from Newcastle subbranches of the Returned Soldiers' League, at a meeting yesterday, endorsed the undertaking…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The undertaking given to Newcastle Hospital Board that £15,000 would be raised for the building and furnishing of a ward on the north…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pte. C. Duncombe, 29, of Charlotte-street, Marrickville, wan drowned in the Hunter River at Luskintyre yesterday, afternoon. His…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Surely if we can contribute about £20,000 the Government could meet the balance as national and post-war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Monday. — Allied planes operating from Britain use up the cargo of nearly a tanker a day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Monday.—"An attack against the South of France is always a possibility," said the Mediterranean Commander in Chief (General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson) yesterday. While this statement was being made in the Middle East the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA.—A scheme to weld Australia and New Zealand into one unit in all international matters is being discussed in Canberra…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—"It is becoming increasingly apparent that the Japanese are deeply worried and shocked by the German…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—There are still four years of bloody and bitter warfare ahead in the Pacific, said Norman Lodge, an Associated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA, Monday.—A proposal that an international transport authority should be established to operate major oversea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The body of Colin Duncombe, 29, of Charlotte-street. Marrickville, was found by police yesterday in 2ft. of water on a sandbar in the Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In front areas of the Ramu Valley are a few men graduates of the Army illiterates' school, who, three months ago,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—Elephant driver and vaudeville artist were the prewar occupations claimed by Pte (Acting-Sergeant) Robert Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Jan. 18.—Marshal Broz-Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Army of Liberation, has been wounded in operations in Montenegro according…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Japanese prisoners of war in New Guinea being conveyed on a jeep to a casualty clearing station. The prisoner sitting is a sergeant-major who was shot through a leg. The one lying on the stretcher is a corporal wounded in the thigh. The…
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